I remember teaching myself PHP back in 2001 after the dotcom crash. I still use it occasionally to whip up quick sites on a shared server setup. I have also u

I remember teaching myself PHP back in 2001 after the dotcom crash. I still use it occasionally to whip up quick sites on a shared server setup. I have also used to quickly build out some web based systems at my day job. You can hate it as much as you like, but bad code comes from bad coding practices. PHP has all the features other languages have. It even fairs pretty well in the benchmarks game against its peers http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/ http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/