I originally learned web development through LAMP. I boosted my proficiency when I learned to program in MVC via codeigniter and kohanaphp. Then I learned Ruby

I originally learned web development through LAMP. I boosted my proficiency when I learned to program in MVC via codeigniter and kohanaphp. Then I learned Ruby on Rails. Kohana and codeigniter set up an MVC environment much like Ruby on rails does. The biggest difference for me is that if you look at kohana, you see how much effort it takes to get PHP to act in a way that Ruby does natively. Kohana sets up PHP so you have access to all sorts of nifty methods by accessing the system Kohana classes and helpers. In ruby, everything is an object. So long story short, I find DSL's in PHP try very hard to emulate how Ruby already behaves. So I prefer Ruby frameworks like sinatra and Rails.