I suggest that you won't waste time learning what you don't need to use a lot (I think Perl will also help you developing/fixing mods for UBB, while PHP might help you add stuff to the accelerator; but all of them are similar). I suggest you to start with Perl, and if you need something for PHP, just enter their docs at php.net.
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