So here we have the timely battle that PHP faces. Frankly, I’m getting sick and tired of this. All in all, I’d have to agree with Jeff on this one, to a certain extent.

They Say PHP Sucks

You’ll hear the same claims every single time: “Google PHP Sucks you’ll see how much PHP sucks”. Oh please! This is some of what the haters usually use for the argument:

• “There are too many functions“
• PHP Isn’t OOP
• Everything is strung together - This claim usually talks about the interaction between PHP and/or SQL

In Defense of PHP

The number one claim is that everything in PHP feels like it’s clunky and may fall apart at any time. Granted, I’ll be the first to admit that I hate boring SQL queries. Keyword here is boring. Within the past year, I’ve really gotten to see that SQL has a lot of power. Learning of all of awesome power, just makes me hate writing crap like:

select title, body, post_date from posts where id = 32

Functions, Functions, Functions

I, myself, have never really understood the “too many functions” argument. Maybe it does make the documentation a bit muggy to get through, but how many functions that are in there have very little to do with me. I don’t care, I just use a handful of them.

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