Originally posted by Davidc316
If the best benifits you can think of for knowing PHP are that you can do it on an old computer in a museum or on a train, then I think that's a very sad state of affairs.
These are not the benefits of using PHP but the benefits of not using web editors - give me any computer with a 3,5" disk drive and I'll create you a working website which you receive in the post and can load up to any hoster you fancy. I could even include PHP functionality and MySQL if you tell me what password you want. The whole thing will fit on one disk. It won't be pretty, but it'll work. Indeed, I recently read an article about a school teacher in a village in Nepal who buys discarded computer components at the flea market down in the valley and helps his pupils create websites - they make computer cases with wood and create seatings for the mainboard etc using thousand-year old woodworking skills. They connect up to the net with your standard phone cable and make websites using notepad, solid HTML knowledge and bugger all else. Hats off to them.
There's just no substitute for learning the code, my friend. If you like Dreamweaver MX, go ahead and use it, but your man Superwormy is spot on with his assessment - most things that actually utilise the possibilities of any genuine programming or scripting language can't be done with point and click, and Dreamweaver can even screw up HTML, which isn't even a programming language.
Best o luck
Norman