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.
If you're still not convinced just yet, please also check some of these other resources on this topic:
- Why choose PHP over alternatives - Why should a developer choose PHP for new projects, rather than an alternative language?