[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.

[dfwgator]

Drupal and Wordpress are PHP-based are they not?