I want to start learning HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript but I don't know where to start

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So as the title suggests, I want to start learning HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript sometime soon, but I don't really know where to start or where I should go to learn HTML and stuff. All I know is that I should probably learn HTML first and then maybe move on to CSS afterwards.
 
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Deffo there, no objections.
And check up SoloLearn apps on android, i used one of them and it was pretty good (not sure what i was learning, they have a lot of learning apps)
Too bad I don't have an Android phone or tablet :T
 

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This is indeed the best place to start. Once you get comfortable with CSS and JavaScript, you should check out Bootstrap and jQuery there as well. I wouldn't touch PHP until you have down the rest, as PHP is something you use to generate the rest basically, or link into a database.
 
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So as the title suggests, I want to start learning HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript sometime soon, but I don't really know where to start or where I should go to learn HTML and stuff. All I know is that I should probably learn HTML first and then maybe move on to CSS afterwards.

Personally I learned HTML first by myself. I once found a good-looking website, and I wanted to see how it works, so I viewed it's source (I think it's CTRL + SHIFT + i in Firefox). It looked kinda logical that elements are made of <>, and you need to close the element, and the elements can have content inside them (other elements or text), and can have parameters with name="value". I learned this by derping around xD After that I learned a bit of JavaScript, then CSS.
I think you should learn it in this order. Also, as others said, W3School is a good place to look for if you don't know something. Also, if you want to learn with the "derping around" method, I suggest you to use Firefox Developer Edition for derping around/testing webpages, because it's very useful, and it has some useful tools for "debugging"/testing stuff.
 
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Some dislike w3schools if you are not already familiar with things. I am not sure I would go that far. If you intend to become the all knowing web coding reference manual then I would not suggest there but if you want to get stuff done then you could do far far worse.

For Javascript I would suggest https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Introduction and others would probably point at the mozilla developer network for other things.

"All I know is that I should probably learn HTML first and then maybe move on to CSS afterwards"
Then you know/were told wrong. HTML and CSS in the so intertwined in the modern world it is basically impossible to separate them. If you want to stick to the older versions of HTML (don't do that) then you might be able to put off CSS for a tiny bit but not for long.

On getting HTML+CSS on lock and then going to php... can't get behind that one. PHP is probably one of the quickest actual programming languages to learn and get by with and you could do a lot at the same time. Now this is also dangerous as php will still give you enough rope to hang yourself, especially if you are trying for security (do you know what a unique per user salted hash table is and why you would want one? No, that is OK as php will allow you to put something public facing without it). Oh and the only valid security that javascript can provide is that crawler bots usually do not like it -- it runs on your attacker's computer so clearly nothing it does could really be trusted.
On SQL. Just make sure you understand roughly what you are doing and make sure your queries are about as nice as they can be to the database and you will do OK. Do also remember the SQL might not be the on the same server as the php interpreter and that counts for something. Do also read up on SQL injection, it has started to go away but I still see some newer developers making the mistakes.

As always if you have a project to keep you entertained then great, if not then I suggest having some existing piece of code and seeing if you can trace down things within it -- one thing I often find is I speak to a nice new HTML+CSS+PHP dev that will almost be able to make me a site from scratch from memory of the commands but you send them into a client site that has a wordpress install that has been customised over the years (possibly badly and usually with little regard to child themes or forking a plugin) and watch the panic attack form. Or if you prefer then get an average theme for wordpress (one of the slightly older twentytwelve/twentythirteen type ones) and change the width? Your nice w3 schools education has taught you to make a nice div and assign it a width, technically that was done here as well but have fun hunting things down. However this is why we have http://getfirebug.com/
If you lack toy hosting somewhere online then I highly suggest a copy of http://www.uniformserver.com/

I can not offer much guidance on ruby on rails, ASP.net or mssql. If you want to learn one kind of code related thing that is not html, css, javascript, php or ?sql then I suggest https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/htaccess.html time was it might have been XML but I think JSON has damaged that position somewhat, though knowing your way around XML is not a bad plan.

Oh and it is not strictly web coding but I do also like to link things like http://www.designmantic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Color-Theory-Infographic.jpg and http://www.designmantic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/font-infography.jpg at these points in time.

Also if you plan to do this for other people then http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
 
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