Many "it depends" factors here. Primarily: (a) What do you actually want to do? (b) Who is hosting this and what capabilities do they provide?
Personally I dislike PHP as it seems to get rather unwieldy quickly (though better that than something platform specific such as ASP or VBScript). On the other hand, it's most likely to be available for hosting companies. If I had control of the machine I was running on I'd use Python plus its built in AnyDBM modules for small scale stuff, and Python + MySQL for larger scale stuff.
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(a) What do you actually want to do?
(b) Who is hosting this and what capabilities do they provide?
Personally I dislike PHP as it seems to get rather unwieldy quickly (though better that than something platform specific such as ASP or VBScript). On the other hand, it's most likely to be available for hosting companies. If I had control of the machine I was running on I'd use Python plus its built in AnyDBM modules for small scale stuff, and Python + MySQL for larger scale stuff.