PHP has many stable frameworks if you are in to that and if you don't want to use a framework you can run vanilla PHP without a problem.
Dependency management is done these days with composer and it is easy add a dependency, like framework or library, from composer.
PHP has has lot of good tooling like IDEs, linters, testing etc.
Here is a short intro to PHP I wrote a few years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25222509
PHP has many stable frameworks if you are in to that and if you don't want to use a framework you can run vanilla PHP without a problem.
Dependency management is done these days with composer and it is easy add a dependency, like framework or library, from composer.
PHP has has lot of good tooling like IDEs, linters, testing etc.
Here is a short intro to PHP I wrote a few years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25222509