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by patja 5077 days ago
Yes, you have to love the myopia and revisionist definition of the statement "Run and scale any type of app. Run any web or background process with any web framework or worker type. "

Really Heroku? Any web framework? I guess PHP and ASP.NET aren't web frameworks any longer.

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Not to be a jerk, but you've been able to run PHP on Heroku for quite a while now, even without buildpacks. Create a facebook app and set language to PHP and you're good to go. Also, if you look at the heroku facebook php template app, there is minimal config needed to run php on heroku.

Also, PHP is not a web framework, it's a language.

If you compare it to things called web frameworks in other languages, PHP is a language and a web framework (or, if you like, which provides a highly integrated default framework).
Using PHP on Heroku has never been straightforward. They don't even mention PHP in this post, and the instructions you've given are fairly undiscoverable. Ignorance of the possibility of running PHP on Heroku is more than excusable.