PHP Sucks But I Like It

Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by emperorcezar on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @09:08PM (#3825402)

Yes, it just works. That's also where there are thousands of poorly written sites out there that chug down sql injections like they were going out of style.

PHP is a reasonable templating language. That's what it should be used for.

If you use a framework, you're golden, but at that point you could be using any language.

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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by sbarre on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @09:50PM (#3825530)

If [language of your choice] was as popular as PHP you can bet that there would be thousands of poorly written sites in that language out there too.

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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by TylerE on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @08:59AM (#3827272)

I sincerely doubt that. PHP has fundamental issues.

It's like the people 10 years ago saying "if [other OS] was as popular as Windows XP, it'd be overrun with malware too". No. The issue wasn't Windows marketshare, it was the completely crap security.

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Re:PHP Sucks But I Like It by chunkybacon on Thursday April 12, 2012 @09:36AM (#3832219)

The issue was both Windows marketshare and crap security. If it wasn't easy to write malware for Windows not as many would write it. If there was no one to infect with the malware, also no one would write it.

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