If it makes OP happy, I'll admit that PHP is a bad language. He certainly has the proof to back it up. But for me, I'm sufficiently used to those idiosyncrasies that I still use PHP for quickly tossing up a small site/app without the need to configure Ruby or Python web framework stacks. Maybe I'll switch eventually, but PHP still works for me and nothing else that I have tried quite replaces it in it's niche in my arsenal. (I also use Ruby on Rails and Node.js, haven't tried any Python web framework. I've used both Apache and Nginx.)