PHP is easy to pick up from JS/Rails/Python [1] (or any other more sophisticated language). The latest version 5.5 is actually a real OO programming language with first class functions and the like [2], and you can get good performance with Apache 2.4's Event MPM + php-fpm [3] and/or the in-memory Phalcon web framework [4]. I've recently been helping a friend with his side business based on PHP and had to pickit up again after not looking at it since 2003, and it's not bad. They're doing good things with it.
Also check out the remote development work jobsites [5] [6] for stuff you know.
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PHP is easy to pick up from JS/Rails/Python [1] (or any other more sophisticated language). The latest version 5.5 is actually a real OO programming language with first class functions and the like [2], and you can get good performance with Apache 2.4's Event MPM + php-fpm [3] and/or the in-memory Phalcon web framework [4]. I've recently been helping a friend with his side business based on PHP and had to pickit up again after not looking at it since 2003, and it's not bad. They're doing good things with it.
Also check out the remote development work jobsites [5] [6] for stuff you know.
[1]: http://www.sitepoint.com/becoming-php-professional-missing-l...
[2]: http://www.php.net/manual/en/langref.php
[3]: https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/PHP-FPM
[4]: http://phalconphp.com/
[5]: http://weworkremotely.com/
[6]: http://jobmote.com/