By zirafi on

Hi,

I'm a beginner on any programming language and I would like to learn either PHP or Drupal. But I am not able to decide which one I should start. I am thinking learning PHP first would make Drupal learning easy. Please advise me.

-Paradesi

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sunilkumar’s picture

sunilkumar commented

Paradesi,

Drupal is not a language. It is a CMS. Please read more about Drupal in the forum and documentation page.
To learn PHP, you should have a good understanding of HTML,CSS etc. That is not the subject of this web site.

Without learning PHP or any programming language, you can use Drupal. Go through the documentation pages and screencasts for a better understanding.

Regards,
-S-

Emad’s picture

Emad commented

Hi,
Well, Drupal is written in PHP, and you will need basic PHP knowledge to alter the template and for custom conditions. and if you want to do your own module then you have to do it in PHP, the good news is that dupal is also a framework so relief you from security, cache, globalization, data abstraction, etc. so learning PHP is your path with Drupal either before or after, i recommend you to learn PHP after drupal.