Haha, gotta love elitist coders, PHP certainly has its flaws, no doubt about that, but I think it really does get an undeserved bad rep.

I think PHP certainly has it's place, and it's definitely my favourite language to code in. I think people bag on it because they want to feel special for NOT using it, because it's that widespread.

I think best and worst are useless words in the world of programming languages, a language can either do what you require of it to get the job done, or it can't, the rest is down to the proficiency of the coder.

Having said that, I never ever want to see Pascal, Basic, FORTRAN or COBOL again in my life!