Personally, I would make the P Python and not PHP. I really do not like working in the latter. The thing about it, with the new development model of abstractin

Personally, I would make the P Python and not PHP. I really do not like working in the latter. The thing about it, with the new development model of abstracting the UI away from the server and writing it in the trinity (I love that and am going to steal it). The back end choice becomes less important. Say you start writing services in PHP and decide later that "yeah this thing is a tar ball", you can just write your next service in Python or Java or Ruby or whatever. Sure you still have to maintain the old ones and possibly port them to your new language of choice, but what you don't have to do it port over an entire server side UI layer which has traditionally been a difficult proposition. They are riddled with proprietary idioms that don't one for one translate to a different languages web framework.