Anything on the web that uses a database and / or needs something beyond a simple display (i.e. some logic is required) can use PHP. Thus, you can build systems rather than just a site. CMS's were already mentioned. Forums, social networking, chat, email, blogs, classified ads and almost anything you can imagine that would run from a server can be done in PHP (and probably has been done many times over).
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