I hate JavaScript, I really do. It wasn’t the best introduction I had to web scripting when I first started learning it but I’ve come to realize that much to my chagrin, JavaScript is a necessary evil that’s probably not going away anytime soon. I’ve made significant efforts to avoid it but I know that if I [someday] take the time to master it, I’d be twice as marketable. Still, I’d choose PHP over JavaScript any day. Maybe one day they’ll start incorporating aspects of JavaScript into PHP and then I’ll never have to deal with it again!