I think many people use php cause there are many cheaper/free solutions out there in regards to hosting and so forth. At least in my experience that seems to be a main reason for php.

At my work they only use php cause of this. I almost do nothing with it at home though.

I would say the main reason is the cost for hosting. Most user also find ASP harder to code than PHP. Me on the other hand find it easier to code in ASP than PHP and have done a couple of sites in PHP and can do what I need to do to get the site running, but have most in ASP. At my regular job, we have Sharepoint for the intranet and our Internet sites are ASP.
I would say it is long from dead and will continue for a few years yet...

Thanks guys.
I am a Snitz fan. Maybe that's because I started learning Classic ASP when I was introduced to Snitz. I've seen other packages around, but still, for me there isn't any other Classic ASP package out there that I enjoy messing around with on a regular basis more than Snitz.
If I want to make the Snitz forums into a blog or a classifieds or a seemingly almost whatever else my mind has the experience to imagine, I allow the Snitz forums to provide the basis for me. I know most of the functions and subs as well as the innuendos pretty well. If I need something to do something I really already have a library to draw from via the base code as well as the so many mods that have been offered through the years.
Regarding PHP, I'm kind of like Huw but on a smaller scale. I can find my way around PHP when I apply myself, but PHP doesn't really attract my interests enough to make me want to take the plunge to master it. I do have to admit that I like what the folks have done with PHP. I like the idea behind WordPress and how the widgets are applied from the end-user's point of view ... seems so simple.
With learning PHP thoroughly, I figure if it is pretty easy for others to finger into, then if I really needed to I could pretty easily finger into it too.
I remember it being a very affordable alternative to Microsoft on the server and hosting end of things. Well, just some concerns I had.
Oh, AnonJr, you said, "When Microsoft finally cuts support for ASP/VBScript" ... are you saying that eventually Microsoft servers won't support those things or just that corporate will no longer provide documentation/patch support eventually?
Thanks again everyone.

I don't do much coding these days, but the small bits I do are pretty much in php, mostly on linux servers. I'm not overly fond of php as a 'language' but there are some real good free apps that run exceptionally well in php/mysql which I like to use.
Until recently, my biggest problem with PHP was the lack of a decent free IDE with debugging, but I just got the new PDT Eclipse all-in-one with the integrated Zend debugger. It was a no-brainer to get running on a Fedora linux computer, it took a bit of research to get server debugging going, but otherwise PDT Eclipse provides the tools I'd missed in PHP. I expect to do some more php coding now that I have a decent free IDE.

Never enjoyed the languages that you must write with a specific editor like asp.net as well.

you can write asp.net in notepad if you want, it does not require visual studio, it would just take a lot longer