My girlfriend is just starting learning web development. She now has a very basic understanding of HTML and CSS. Then she went to Rails Girls London to learn a

My girlfriend is just starting learning web development. She now has a very basic understanding of HTML and CSS. Then she went to Rails Girls London to learn a bit about the backend. Unfortunately (and I know as I was a mentor at one of this events) RoR is completely unsuitable for a beginner. It took me one hour to explain what a console is, and she still doesn't really know what to do with it. She had all this questions like "what is a controller", "umm how do I open this page now again?", "umm how do I do X", "how do I do Y". Now contrast this with PHP. I setup a simple server, install PHP, get it started and then just tell her "create a new file called 'index.php' save it in this location, then open your browser and enter localhost/index.php". That's it. She doesn't need to know about generating controllers and rakes and db migrations and what not. Open text editor, put html in there, put some PHP in there. That's it. Seriously, PHP is perfect for a beginner. She can learn about MVC later. Right now all she wants to do is to create something and have it work. She really doesn't need to know about adding model validators and what not. And from what I know about Python it's the same deal as with Ruby. You just can't create a file and start writing a web page without pulling in a bunch of boilerplate. So bottom line is: yeah PHP is way relevant today.