You can write very good and clean code with PHP, especially now with 7.1 Grab a copy of clean code, familiarize yourself with composer (which is an awesome pac

You can write very good and clean code with PHP, especially now with 7.1 Grab a copy of clean code, familiarize yourself with composer (which is an awesome package manager) and you are good to go. Just avoid crappy code like wordpress and co, stick with OOP and you won't regret it.