It pays off to be 'language agnostic', in other words, to realize that programming is more about the programmer than it is about the language.

I've seen BASIC used to power million dollar companies.

To throw out some project simply because it is built in a language you don't like is counter-productive. I know PHP is the language to hate around here but you could do a lot worse in a web environment.

PHP really is the new 'BASIC', it has a very low barrier to get started and that's why plenty of people associate it with crummy code but you don't have to write crummy code in any language.