"I'm absolutely shocked at how fundamentally flawed PHP code is from the perspective of general best practices in software and web development and also computer

"I'm absolutely shocked at how fundamentally flawed PHP code is from the perspective of general best practices in software and web development and also computer science. PHP code is so bad that it deserves it's own section on dailywtf.com." I assume that your 80k line app must have been written very poorly. Like any other good language PHP can be misused to create horrifying spaghetti code. That doesn't mean the language is no good.