..from a coder's perspective.. that PHP truly is *too big to fail* at this point. wordpress is an excellent example of how PHP can be used to write a great platform, and wikimedia is another. when someone comes to me and explains what they want in a website.. and as long as what *I* hear is, 'i don't have a lot of money, i don't need any custom functionality that can't be accomplished with a plugin, it doesn't need to be super-fast, and i want my brother-in-law to update it for free instead of you at $40/hr'..
..as long as that's what i hear, i suggest wordpress .. or the like. pretty much anything that needs to be done after the initial design phase can be done through the GUI backend.
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doesn't change the essential fact that PHP results inevitably and *every time* in a big bowl of spaghetti code with HTML meatballs.
not even *spaghetti* code.. more like mixed pasta.. a bunch of spaghetti with functions in camelCase.. mixed with a bunch of lasagna with functions in cstyleruntogetherlowercaseletters.. mixed with a bunch of rainbow colored twisty noodles with functions in underscored_variable_style.
pick a fuckin noodle, already!
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