I am beginning to see a lot of these languages are very similar. I think once I can get my head round one it will become easier and easier. I like JavaScript though for the reason you don't have to pass values into a function to use them (obviously depending on what you need to do, you may want to pass in a variable as a parameter and return a result, which IIRC won't change the initial value of the global variable which was used within the function), whereas in PHP you must either pass in a variable as a parameter or make use of the global keyword
With OOP languages, you can just make class variables, and declare them either private to be only accessible by the class that contains them, or public to be usable by other classes / methods.
