I come from a PHP background too and in my opinion Python is far easier to use, whole stack. I wrote about it here http://blog.jmoz.co.uk/learning-python-the-p

I come from a PHP background too and in my opinion Python is far easier to use, whole stack. I wrote about it here http://blog.jmoz.co.uk/learning-python-the-pragmatic-way http://blog.jmoz.co.uk/learning-python-the-pragmatic-way