[leetnewb]

I picked up php a couple of months back after 30 years of ignoring it, mostly after reading a comment somewhere about using php for shell scripting. Very easy to read the language documentation on php.net and get moving. Powerful standard library. I haven't found another language (not an exhaustive claim) that offers language documentation as helpful as php's for a beginner.

[LkpPo]

Yes, the presentation of the documentation is very good. This is something I miss when I have to switch to other languages.

I also use it to write CLI scripts to exchange data between programs. The wealth of extensions and good UTF-8 support are a plus.