What are you building? Are you making complicated web infrastructure or building a random website for an online towel store? There's more than 1 valid approach

What are you building? Are you making complicated web infrastructure or building a random website for an online towel store? There's more than 1 valid approach to building good software. Node.js and PHP have very different approaches with different tradeoffs and have different strengths for different problems. If you're more comfortable with PHP, no worries, use what feels right to you.