# PHP, XML, Javascript... Which to learn first?

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**Created:** [October 3, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-xml-javascript-which-to-learn-first/164634 "2005-10-03T16:41:12Z")\
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I’d like to start learning these languages.  
One at a time, tho.

I know Javascript is Client-side, but anywho…

**Which to learn first?**

I already know HTML, CSS, a bit of SQL… And these are the ones that could be used online.  
Offline I know Pascal, C, and in theory Visual Basic… Although that last one I could make no promise on realisticly knowing it. School tought and bad grades and the like…

Surprisingly! I just noticed I ordered the languages by how much I know them.  
Anyway…

I do have a book on XML, but that doesn’t mean it’s any good, or that I should learn that first. Have a book on PHP and loads of others that don’t necessarily make it a good idea to learn first.

Got books on Basic, that belonged to my dad; and those aren’t a real good idea to spend any time on either.

So ye of more experience that I!  
Where should I start?

I like AJAX, but don’t really understand the important languages used by it!