I'm an old retired man trying to learn vBulletin, which I installed last week on iPage host. I programmed for many years in C and C++, but never did PHP or HTML. Guess I'll have to learn those scripting languages in order tgo do vBulletin successfully. But that's one of the reasons I'm here.
As Said above, php should be an easy learning curve for you. Hope you enjoy the world of forums and become yet another admin addict