Me a year ago:
// Pieces together a deadbeat crappy php-script
"Man... PHP is shit"

Me now:
// Gets paid to create controllers for php framework applications
"Man... PHP is THE shit!"

What I enjoy most about php is that flexibility, you can quickly whip up a procedural script to do something but you can also make a full blown object oriented system with it.

Sometimes I do wish php would give off some opinions, warnings about insecurity and such, a bit like what Ruby does.. :)

On the other side.. The key value fuck abouts still trigger my balls to this day.. :p

I'm still at you a year ago! Getting there though...

Laravel is THE shit

Actually switched to Rails now, no more faking it.