[guillermovs]

Here's a side by side comparison without comments:

http://cl.ly/3Z3l1w0v2I2n2y231Y09/o

That's 10 lines more. 100 times more readable.

[runekaagaard]

Well actually 15, as it seems fair to remove the comments in Snow too. About it being readable, I think that has a lot to do with experience. For me the Snow version is clear as day ;)

[guillermovs]

Well the comments in Snow are kinda necessary, since it's all abbreviated and hard to read. The PHP class in the other hand is a lot clearer, with informative class and function names.