For the love of God, do not use PHP. After having to occasionally do PHP for several years, I've grown to hate it.

Check out these links:

• id:212355 (A thread called PHP vs. Perl);
• http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15772 (PHP bug 15772);
• http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=21634 (PHP bug 21634).

These are just a few examples to make you realize that no one should ever use PHP, no matter how convenient it is. It is a pain to maintain between upgrades, as new features break old APIs, and does not have a good security history.