> but does it make PHP special for CMSes? Well because people who don't know anything about programming just need a cheap hosting with an Apache/PHP/Mysql plan

> but does it make PHP special for CMSes? Well because people who don't know anything about programming just need a cheap hosting with an Apache/PHP/Mysql plan and upload the script via FTP. That's it. Again it has everything to do with how easy and cheap it is for an hosting company to provide PHP/hosting and how simple it is to deploy a PHP application for someone without a programming background.