Originally Posted by
aidanjt
Better performance. Configuration files are copyable, meaning stable and consistent behaviour across deployments. PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository) offers a great library of prewritten code for various problems. And there's already thousands of community opensource PHP programmes and frameworks for most problems you'd care to imagine, for you to use or base your own work on. The software is well (and freely) documented and there's a gazillion tutorials on setup and programming only a google away. And compared to Visual Basic, PHP is textual porn (more like C#, only without the giant .Net inheritance scopes).