PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is one of the most popular, general-purpose, procedural, server scripting language that is especially designed for suiting the web development and can also be embedded into HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). It is a powerful tool for designing dynamic and user-interactive web pages. PHP is a language that unlike other client-based languages like JavaScript does execute the code on the server and then generates HTML which is then sent to the client. The main advantage that PHP has over other languages is that it is extremely simple for a beginner and also does offers advanced features for professional-level coders.
Python is a multipurpose, interpreted, high level programming language. It is dynamically-typed, versatile, object-oriented and functional programming language which supports modules and packages, that encourages code reuse and program modularity like features. It is a programming language known for its far-reaching applicability that scales beyond web development coding.