[xerka]

I personally love php for creating dynamic pages. It is a pretty easy language to use if you know basics. It also has great documentation on each function. And no php doesn't replace html it is just used to generate it.

For my editors I use Dreamweaver MX on windows and on linux i use bluefish or nano w/ source hightlighting.

If you want to learn a good scripting language I would go with php it seems much "cleaner" to me than perl.