Where PHP wins: Deep code base The web is filled with PHP code. The most popular platforms for building websites (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla) are written in PHP.

The old, established PHP code acts as a front door to the database, double-checking the requests, cleaning up the data, and generally providing all of the business logic.

One of PHP's strengths is the ability to easily inject variables, values and attributes into HTML code to create dynamic Web pages.