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by true_religion
3769 days ago
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Modern PHP really isn't all that bad, I still wouldn't recommend people go into PHP development out of fear that they might stumble into one of the pre-modern hellholes that I only barely escaped in the early days of my career. It's almost an irrational fear, but I remember working on plugins for applications where plugin hooks were non-existent, and the canonical approach was to patch code. I remember applications where there was no frontend server, but rather a sprawl of PHP files each doing one thing and hooking into the 'main' system via a 'require settings.php'. Apart from that, working within PHP still obliges you to do a lot of hairy things---like working with Drupal. Now Drupal is certainly better architected than say Mambo/Joomla ever was, but it's still a better CMS than it is a web framework and for some odd reason lots of companies insist on building things into Drupal even today. Now ... all of my recent knowledge is second hand, I've been out of PHP and into Python for at least 5 years now |
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