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PHP is a wildly successful environment for developing web applications. According to the PHP usage survey, it’s installed on over a million servers. It’s part of almost every entry-level web hosting service. It’s part of a configuration that’s so common, it has its own abbreviation.
PHP proponents will tell you that PHP is designed to be simple and easy to use, so that people who don’t necessarily have programming backgrounds can write applications in it. They will tell you that PHP is a good choice for creating large-scale applications that need to serve millions or tens of millions of users. They will tell you that PHP’s features are competitive with modern scripting languages, including Ruby and Python.
These statements are damnable lies.