Apart from ubiquitous cheap hosting another big factor in PHP's early success was the numerous magazines pumping out "Build X with PHP and MySQL" articles. The

Apart from ubiquitous cheap hosting another big factor in PHP's early success was the numerous magazines pumping out "Build X with PHP and MySQL" articles. The shelves of newsagents were full of them in the early 2000s, some devoted purely to PHP development. Dreamweaver also adopted PHP for its dynamic site generator which made it accessible to front-end developers.