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Php is the best, combined with html, designed by css.
javascript is also a powerful language
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PHP has no language design, has a lot of junk tacked on, and is a mess in general.
But yes, I'd say you're right. Not much use for PHP except web.
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Php is not the best, but the most used: that's quite different :P
Php is not the only one to do web serving dynamical web: there are frameworks for use JS on server side, and now most of scripting languages also: Ruby and (on) Rails, Python and Django, Flask, Bottle and so on, Java and Spring...
Even if Php is still the most implented/used, It's older than others and future will probably let it back ^^
And I would personally recommend to look at Python, but at least on language with which you're better skilled/inspired/motivated ;)