I'm more of a Yii guy, but I'm in the same boat as you. I'm proud to work with php every day, despite the online hate. 5.3 was the big break, 5.4 gave us $this

I'm more of a Yii guy, but I'm in the same boat as you. I'm proud to work with php every day, despite the online hate. 5.3 was the big break, 5.4 gave us $this in closures, and 5.5 fixed the age old password hashing issues while dropping generators in my lap. Exciting times :)