Comment by KaeseEs

PHP is not a good tool for quickly getting a minimum viable product. Despite its flaws it is a good weapon for fighting 'the last war' - that is to say, it makes it quick and easy to make what are essentially the CGI pages of 1996 - but if you're doing anything more complex than that (for instance interacting in any way with a database), and I would suggest that even relatively non-technical people looking to use computing technology for a business are in Anno 2012, there are many better systems available which do not expose the novice or intermediate programmer to nearly so many pitfalls.