You don't have to use all these new fancy PHP features as long as you don't use any third party libraries. I still write PHP just like I did in 2002 and it work

You don't have to use all these new fancy PHP features as long as you don't use any third party libraries. I still write PHP just like I did in 2002 and it works. It's not as pedantic as Python which makes it pretty useful for small data manipulation tasks which I have to do every now and then.