It's decent as far as 2000s era PHP goes. If you want to poke your eyes out, look at the source of some of the PHP web forum software out there. The leaked cod

It's decent as far as 2000s era PHP goes. If you want to poke your eyes out, look at the source of some of the PHP web forum software out there. The leaked code ignores pretty much all design patterns and software architecture norms. But not having to deal with that, and being able to cobble something together in a hurry, was the appeal of PHP. You can always rewrite later. Nowadays Facebook's landing page is served by highly tuned binaries compiled from C++. If they decided in 2007 to start out with that, we probably would not know who Zuckerberg is.