PHP has a huge ecosystem, extensive documentation, and a long history of powering websites across the internet. Modern PHP is very different from the basic PHP scripts developers commonly wrote years ago. With current PHP versions, object-oriented programming, type declarations, modern tooling, frameworks, and automated testing, developers can build sophisticated and maintainable applications.

For anyone interested in backend or full-stack web development, learning PHP alongside MVC concepts and a framework such as Laravel can provide a strong foundation.