[Sohcahtoa82]

Yeah, but you still haven't answered the question of how being a PHP developer means being a bad programmer. All you've done is say they have a bad reputation, but reputations can easily be based on false or outdated data.

Java was known for being so slow as to be absolutely worthless 20 years ago, and it still has a reputation for being slow despite many benchmarks proving otherwise.

Yeah, sure, if you take a PHP project from a legacy code base and run a server with it, it'll probably get hacked within minutes, but that says nothing about current-gen PHP.