Non-Breaking Space “PHP hasn’t changed” Written on Tuesday 20 of May, 2014 The picture that many developers have of PHP is one of a barely useful OOP stack with a heap of oddly functions and a bunch of cruft like Magic Quotes just waiting to ruin your day if you don’t go out of your way to turn the damned thing off. Add to this cthulhuian nightmare a bunch of popular projects that clients are going to demand developers deal with at some point, and it’s easy to see why opinions of PHP are not very high. Fortunately quite a bit has changed over the past decade since PHP 5 was released, and although opinions are slow to change PHP itself has begun to move at a cracking pace. Let me show you a snapshot of what has changed and what the future holds, because that’s frankly far more exciting than listening to someone who hasn’t used a language in a decade complain about how just awful it t...