Role of PHP in web-development!

Development have wild area in software development. It have many language which have some similarity or some different concept. So like .Net, JAVA, C# and PHP. All are very high level language they all have individual features. But in these days PHP is most preferable language in development. Because it is a open source language and ease to get anywhere like internet. So its features are really very ease and understandable. So i think it is a useful language in software development.