Strange article.
It's basically a list of nice things going for PHP, but you can write that for literally any tech in any context — like, I could argue that you should build web sites with the Unity game engine or raw Python by listing out-of-context stats all day long.
Whenever the author actually compares, it breaks down:
- Ok, so Lavarel is from 2011 — React is from 2013, Django is from 2005...so what
- Sure, there may be a new js framework everyday, but not a new version of js...and anyway, an active and innovative community is automatically bad why?
- PHP has "2 strong framework players" — ok, so has Python, js has two to four...
- "lack of advanced technology" — what does this even mean?