PHP is...

ok so I was happy with Ruby. But then I needed to take some more points in school and decided to take a PHP course since, well whatever. And at first things were, well, ok I guess, not glorious but I survived. And then my teacher said, "Great, now do the rest OO.". And now 4chan, please tell me what an idiot I am for taking a PHP course, or am I wrong?
So now my question is, wtf is PHP? (especially the object part)

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Truth is I've been using it over Perl for 70% of my CLI scripts because of the better syntax and needing to change the script in a few months, although I'm phasing out both in favour of Python.