> I've seen this so often - because it's so easy to do it. That's the very point. PHP was/is _easy_ to pick up. You get something working quickly. Then you mee

> I've seen this so often - because it's so easy to do it. That's the very point. PHP was/is _easy_ to pick up. You get something working quickly. Then you meet problems. And hopefully, you learn along the way and fix that (and see, this whole thread is from people that learned how not to use $_GET/$_POST). This "build/make it work/fail/fix" loop was an ingredient that made PHP so popular. The "happy code path" was not a pain to setup.