I've heard a lot of that. Yet, mostly from people who've never or hardly ever used the language. By reputation, PHP is a bit like JavaScript. JavaScript was th

I've heard a lot of that. Yet, mostly from people who've never or hardly ever used the language. By reputation, PHP is a bit like JavaScript. JavaScript was this language nobody liked. It wasn't even considered a real language by most programmers. Some of it's design errors made it a language with low barrier to entry. Hence a lot of mediocre programmers made it unpopular with code that does not deserved to be called code. This changed with people like Crockford and his 'JavaScript the good parts'... It's pretty much the same with PHP. It gets the job done very easily... And once you know what you do, you can rely on it for large projects too. Especially with the changes that were introduced in the latest release: Namespaces, Closures, ...