> the PHP devs I have seen are more prone to [...] not reinvent the wheel in source code* I have the opposite experience: Because PHP and package management i

> the PHP devs I have seen are more prone to [...] not reinvent the wheel in source code* I have the opposite experience: Because PHP and package management is relatively new (Composer is from 2012, compared to CPAN's general availability in 1995), I haven't seen more wheel-reinventing than among PHP programmers. Even the standard library seems to be reinventing its own wheels. I'm looking at you, mysql_real*_escape_string.