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PHP is very easy to learn and almost like "plug&play" - write a script, upload it to a shared FTP server and it works. Due that there are many wannabe developers who claim they are PHP developers because they wrote few webpages or even single scripts.

At my former workplace, we had many applicants who couldn't even connect with the database (but they judged their PHP knowledge as 4/5 or 5/5 in the CV).

I like PHP as it was my first language learned and I've been using it for long years and I don't understand the hate, excluding a reason given above. But it is a problem with people, not the language itself.