Symfony 2 is kind of ok

18 Jun 2015 08:04 | php | development

As PHP frameworks go, Symfony 2 isn't entirely terrible. Before this project it had been a while since I used Symfony, and back then it was still on version 1.something. These days it's kinda cool, allows easy use of popular design patterns and doctrine works reasonably well.

There are some things I find frustrating though, often you spend more time

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PHP just sucks and there's no getting around it

15 Jun 2015 11:12 | php | development

There are many reasons why PHP is a shit programming language, many of which are discussed at length in this article:

http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

But the main thing that bugs me is how inelegant it is. You can get things

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