Actually, I agree with you and I think this is often missed as one of the main contributing factors to PHPs bad rep. If I had enough spare time (and a wider per

Actually, I agree with you and I think this is often missed as one of the main contributing factors to PHPs bad rep. If I had enough spare time (and a wider personal network of php pros to draw from) I'd love to make something like www.betterphp.org with short tutorials and guides teaching newbies the current best practices. As it is, anyone picking up PHP for the first time is confronted with a minefield of conflicting and out of date information, some of which is dangerous. PHP has been around forever and Google has a long memory. Unfortunately, for every good blog post/tutorial on PHP development there are 100 or more bad or out of date ones.