Originally Posted by Village Idiot Do you mean Javascript? Java is a computer programing language and javascript is a client side scripting language.

No, just Java in general.

Originally Posted by Wildhoney PHP all the way, squire! AJAX used in conjunction with JSON definitely comes recommended from me. A little article on JSON if you're unfamiliar.

I was hoping to learn PHP as well but I realized that most of the languages are somewhat similar to each other.

Which language would be better to learn so that I can program applications but also code websites so that they function faster and easier?