A poor coder blames his tools (or language). You can make a masterpiece in any programming language. For that matter though I love PHP, been using it for over 10 years. I've used other languages extensively too but for my own projects it usually falls back to good old PHP.

I definitely wouldn't say it's one of the poorest languages to have in the toolkit though; http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/01/31/php-just-grows-...

Most enjoyable for web : php,

Most enjoyable for apps : c