[Borges]

PHP is amateurville. I can’t imagine a first rate pro website being written in it.

[Mr. Jeeves]

PHP is amateurville. I can’t imagine a first rate pro website being written in it.

You just need to know it to maintain or update the old ones. Same with Perl.

[sand88]

PHP is amateurville. I can’t imagine a first rate pro website being written in it.

PHP is used on a vast majority of web sites (that require server side programming). I remember reading recently from a Alexa ranking that the of the top million web sites, nearly 80% use PHP.

Check out the Laravel framework. It will guarantee its popularity (and growth) of PHP for the foreseeable future.

Every language has it's quirks.

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

PHP is amateurville. I can’t imagine a first rate pro website being written in it.

It's the poor workman who blames his tools. ;^})

Yahoo!, Facebook and Wikipedia are just three sites using PHP. Then, there's LinkedIn and WordPress.com.

There are a number of MVC frameworks supporting PHP including CakePHP and CodeIgniter.