In the latest DevArticles.com piece, they talk about a wide range of technologies - including PHP. In New Technologies and What They Mean to You: Part 2, the first web scripting language that they cover is PHP.

PHP (PHP Hypertext Processor) is an HTML-embedded, server-side, cross-platform scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. PHP is open source software. So that's what PHP is on paper, but what does it really do? Two things that are instantly attractive are that it's open source, and so it has a low development cost and support and assistance are readily available through the active and helpful PHP community.

There's other technologies covered in this article, but it's nice to see PHP mentioned along with the other "big boys" of web programming, as well as the advantages that they have, including a "strong support community".