Reasons why I don't hate PHP
PHP is probably the most hated programming language, ever. Yet it is so widely used, easy to write and easy to deploy that most programmers nowadays have to learn it at some point.
Unless you count pure HTML, PHP is what introduced me to programming world years ago. Back then I don’t know better, and PHP is so easy to write that I begin to commit to it. I do have a few big project written in PHP (not open sourced). Not for long, I begin experiencing nightmares of PHP, first being magic_quotes. I need to implement a lot of workarounds, but I still use PHP because back then (and even now), many shared hosters only support PHP. (I just use VPS now, though)