It doesn't matter. Both work quite fine, PHP is more web-centric. Its not used so much for scripting or even some desktop apps like Python is. But if I was g

It doesn't matter. Both work quite fine, PHP is more web-centric. Its not used so much for scripting or even some desktop apps like Python is. But if I was going to make an off the cuff assessment I'd say its better for web development just because its so huge in the space.