PHP is a fun, easy to uses programming language. It’s a good first language to try out, if you’ve never programmed before and if you want to program for the web.

There’s really not much of a learning curve to learning PHP. You can pretty much just jump right in as long as you have a PHP-enabled server. However, there are over 2000 functions in the core language, and with PHP5, object-oriented programming is a big part of it. That’s why I like it so much. You can get started today, and, 5 years from now, you will still have a long way to go before you’ve mastered it.