PHP - Pros and Cons

In most situations PHP is THE choice for server-side scripting, yet though many ISPs also support ASP. PHP is more native to UNIX, which pretty much all ISPs run on their servers, so the UNIX integration is probably considerably better than that of ASP. Also, PHP runs under Windows as well. There seems to be many more free and complete applications wrritten in PHP than ASP/VBScript, examples being Coppermine Photo Gallery, phpBB and Wordpress. They are all very good applications that are more or less plug-n-play. Also Mediaplazza's content service (used at Mobile Fun) is fully written in PHP. All in all, PHP is the way to go for server-side scripting. Period.