[JimmyM]

PHP best practices might be becoming like Java, but the language is far, far, far from anything close as far as I can see.

Again, as far as I can see it's as simple to hack together a script in PHP as it ever was. What's changing about the language that makes it more like Java?[1]

1. I tried and failed to make this sentence seem as non-passive-aggressive as possible. I'm genuinely interested, as it's not something I've come across and I'm by no means a PHP expert.

[marktangotango]

Last I looked it was class definitions and access modifiers that made it look java-esque. I'm not in the know however.