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Aren't there pretty popular PHP frameworks that take care of magic like parsing variables and routing URLs and persisting state?

• krapp 11y ago
  Of course, tons. But there's also a lot of PHP out there that doesn't use frameworks. Knowing how things like sessions and headers and requests actually work is probably more immediately useful for PHP than other languages, for which there's likely one de facto framework that everyone uses by default. In PHP-land you're just as likely to walk into a job where interns have been hacking crazy stuff into a Simple Machines forum for the last year as encounter something built on a framework. And of course, mixing javascript, css and php together with whatever happens to come out of a database query (which is encoded in who knows what) is not at all uncommon, so even frontend knowledge is helpful.