Is php worth it?

[eluser]Mark Skilbeck[/eluser]
[quote author="RyanPriestman" date="1259627430"]I was emailing a very succesful danish programmer yesterday.

He said, dont bother learning php - as Ruby on Rails is a much better all 'n all

Is this true?[/quote]

I haven't used Ruby on Rails, 'though I have heard nothing but good things about it. This. however, does not validate his suggestion to not 'bother learning php.'

There was a site I visited not long ago that showed the comparisons in usage between PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, Java, etc. on the web. Guess who was on top? PHP. Most of the major sites use PHP. What does this say about PHP? It definitely doesn't say it's the best language, but it does say it's the most widely used language on the web, and, from that bombshell, you can see that most web development jobs will require PHP.

So, yes, PHP is worth learning.

- Mark.

P.S. Tell this successful Danish programmer to learn the difference between a framework and a language (Ruby on Rails = framework, PHP = Language).