I love PHP

So, a friend asked me to whip up a website for him that would allow him to enter some data into forms, and later output those forms into a document. He's not a techie guy, and just wants a nice simple website. In about half a day Id gotten a working prototype together using phpMyAdmin, and just some simple cut and paste PHP code. Im a programmer by trade, but haven't done Web Front End stuff in a long time, and have a zero dollar budget, so its code it by hand using freeware. I can't say enough good things about PHP, while I'd worked with it before, I just dusted it off and bang, job done. While I know Ruby On Rails and Servlets and ASP.net and x and y and Z are all good too, just thought Id throw out props to your old pal, PHP and MySQL.

UPDATE: 9 years later, PHP is still hand-dandy-super-duper for quick web work, and cheap web-hosting that doesn't like Application Containers running all the time love supporting it because its light weight and not sucking up cycles...