There can be elegance found in writing well-formed code of any language. It may be tougher in PHP, but it's certainly possible. To use a car analogy, I have

There can be elegance found in writing well-formed code of any language. It may be tougher in PHP, but it's certainly possible. To use a car analogy, I have more respect for the guy running an old Mustang he tunes up and runs a 11 second quarter-mile than the jackass who drops 200 large on an exotic that pulls a 10.