> I strongly disagree with your implication that it's only useful as a presentation layer, however. That's not what I meant. I meant that it was created from

> I strongly disagree with your implication that it's only useful as a presentation layer, however. That's not what I meant. I meant that it was created from the perspective of a View. There's no other reason that php code has to be delimited with <?php ?>, other than it was originally designed to be embedded in html. This alone shows how the creators envisioned PHP to be used.