In his latest blog entry titled PHP confessions from a Java fiend, Cedric pretty much acknowledges that PHP is a great tool for lots of things.
It was interesting to learn that Cedric had also picked up PHP because I'm also reading a book on PHP5's object-oriented capabilities. No, I'm not jumping ship. I just like taking a look at what other communities are doing and whether I could learn something from them. So far, I'm not too impressed but I have to say PHP has come a long way since the last time I did anything with it (around 2000).
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I've also found that there are just so many things that you can do with off-the-shelf parts in PHP that would need a lot more hand-coding in Java.
My latest adventure is built on the WordPress blog for content-generation and MagpieRSS for simple aggregation of the blog feed into a web site. I've enhanced WordPress with several plugins, and I plan to integrate a content management system such as Mambo or Drupal (or one of the many others) when I need extra site features. And I can do it all with a dirt-cheap hosting account.
My Java plans for this sort of thing are still on the drawing board, but the PHP site is getting something like 500 UVs a day, and its only five days old!