Cry and panic because they don't know the required technology to complete the task.

(We all go through this. Some people just cannot contain their emotions though).

eventually decided to use php :-D

The people who cry and panic shouldn't be programmers.

We are problem solvers, not kids.

I myself dont panic when this kind of situation arise, but i must confes that i have the dirty habit of needing to understand and learn everything of a the standard side of a particular technology to use it for like 5 mins in someting else... this kind of killed all my attempts to learn cool things as for example all my try out with unity ended in reading and doing tutorials for js or c#