I personally feel like PHP OOP is much more like C++. It's just not surprising that two high-level languages based on C++ end up near the same place. PHP is h

I personally feel like PHP OOP is much more like C++. It's just not surprising that two high-level languages based on C++ end up near the same place. PHP is heavily based on C so choosing to make it's OOP features like C++ isn't a big leap. Plus PHP is still far less enterprisey than Java so maybe the OO model isn't the real issue.