Why choose PHP?

PHP compared to other programming languages

A completely normal question to ask yourself when starting a project is which technologies to use.

Some of the strengths of PHP:

Good speed and performance.
Simplicity and the ability to develop complex applications.
Very vibrant, large, and diverse community.
Active, updated, and detailed manual.
A wide selection of out-of-the-box, popular, and production ready open source solutions such as content management and e-commerce systems, CRMs, frameworks, and components and libraries for building applications from scratch.
PHP is used by 82.1% of all the websites whose server-side platform could be measured.