How relevant is PHP today for browser games?

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Published on 2011-07-12T03:22:15Z Indexed on 2012/10/04 15:54 UTC
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I was the lead developer of 2 moderately successful browser games quite a few years back, and plan on working on a new game soon. At the time, I wrote them in pure PHP (no template engine or anything of the sort).

I'd like to start working on a new game, but have been out of the web development world for a while. Reading around, I hear a lot of good about Rails, Django, Node.js, etc., with which I have no experience (although I know my way around Python, Javascript, and the others quite well).

So my question is the following- if I were to go in my old ways and go with PHP again, would I be making things hard for myself? Would picking something more "trendy" have a real impact on my development?

In addition, does anyone have any pointers relating to specifically developing browser games with these more modern tools?

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