SEO with PHP/Database driven sites

I know this is the wrong place for this question but I wanted the opinion of this forum.
My company is in the planning stages of building a new site. It's currently PHP/Database driven but for the amount of products we have in our lineup, it's not really necessary. I'm heading up the SEO for the new site and have been looking into it the past few weeks.
From what I've read here and there, PHP isn't too search engine friendly. There aren't any recent articles online that I can find on the subject so I would like to know your opinion. The new site can be created just as well with HTML/CSS and we plan to go crazy with SEO. From what you guys know about SEO, would you recommend staying with PHP or moving over to HTML?
Thanks in advance...

No, there is no difference. The only thing to ensure is that your 'meta' description is also individualised for each item/page and that any images contain a title attribute individual to the image and not the generic "product image" title, (or similar) that many include.
This is what I've learned. I'm excited to begin the whole process. We have many websites that need to be re-done so we're trying to work out good plan before doing so. Designing for mobile came up after the first site was completed and I didn't have too much time to get into that, as you saw a few weeks back. Right now the page is only really built for Blackberry and once I was going to get into learning the media queries for the next two, I was put onto SEO.
We're a bbq company with a tonne of brands and things haven't been touched in years. Not a single person here knows anything about any of the websites. When I was hired a few months ago I was just thrown into the mix. As I'm sure you can imagine, things can get frustrating.
EDIT--
This is BOSS DJ. I made another account for work and for some reason they've switched them up. I signed in with Krumf and they gave me BOSS even though it said Welcome, Krumf up top. This window has been open ever since I signed in
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>> Is it worth it to invest the time and brain power?
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so large that I'm
>> having issues. But, I could see some down the road
that might be too
>> complex and large.
>>
>> I'm having some problems figuring out where to
begin. Any suggestions
>> on books that specifically deal with Dreamweaver and
database driven
>> sites?
>
> Anything by David Powers (of this parish) will be an
exceedingly good
> investment..
>
> Pete.
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>
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>
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> Thanks for the replies.
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>
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>
>
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