Large community. With recent updates its fast and has modern features. A lot of PHP developers out there so hiring is not an issue (you just need to filter out

Large community. With recent updates its fast and has modern features. A lot of PHP developers out there so hiring is not an issue (you just need to filter out the bad ones - and there's a lot of those too). If your project is primarily web based its a really good choice. At the end of the day though PHP is just a tool and what matters is how you use it and what's the outcome. If you are familiar with it then why not use it? I personally feel like the biggest shortcoming of PHP is its legacy and the huge amount of bad code that you can find by searching on Google.