PHP's biggest strength is also it's greatest weakness: flexibility. For a beginning programmer it is great because you can just do simple stuff in minimal numbe

PHP's biggest strength is also it's greatest weakness: flexibility. For a beginning programmer it is great because you can just do simple stuff in minimal number of lines. For advanced programmers it is great because you can build a flexible framework that fits your unique business situations. However, for intermediate programers there is enough flexibility to really write terrible code that somehow works, but could never be maintained.