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Hi everyone,

I'm Currently a new student for webmaster. Wondering what is the difference between PHP, Coldfusion & MySQL. And which would be better to start building an open source web site with?

[darkdirk1]

Those are 3 very different things.
First off, Coldfusion is not open-source (It's pricey).
MySQL is a flavor of SQL database language.
So I guess by process of elimination that leaves you with PHP.
However, just to be a stickler - you don't actually create websites using PHP.
You build the application logic with PHP.
The interface itself (the part people see) is done typically using html and css....