[iLinx]

PHP is an interpreted imperative/OOP language also based off C syntax ,or is at the least very similar(having known both languages myself). However, PHP and PAWN are two very different scripting languages, although they do share some function names in common (ex - strcmp, substr, fwrite, fread, fopen, etc), they run differently. Essentially, PHP is superior to PAWN, i find however that in PAWN i spend most of my time just writing code, while in PHP im probably spending more time with the actual runtime behavior/operation of the script (efficiency, security, etc)

Writing PHP App's is simple, writing efficient PHP App's when you've got hundreds of different files, classes, functions, etc working together - thats the real challenge