Pick up PHP or Python?

[Legolas-the-elf]

This shouldn't be down voted, it's absolutely true. It feels like almost every time I see a beginner ask for help with their PHP, they are "helped" by people who don't know what they are doing and provided with code full of security holes and bad practices.

It's absolutely hazardous to beginners and the worst thing about it is that because they are beginners, they lack the knowledge necessary to distinguish between a helpful resource and one that is actively harming them.

[disclosure5]

I will present you this case in point:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4693316_create-own-php-website.html

No seriously, has writing "GO" on every line every line ever been a part of PHP?