Yet, almost all well-known PHP applications don't have a public directory. And almost all non-PHP webapplications do have a public directory (e.g. practically a

Yet, almost all well-known PHP applications don't have a public directory. And almost all non-PHP webapplications do have a public directory (e.g. practically all Python/Django and Ruby/Rails projects). So the connection to PHP is apparent till today, although it may have to do more with crappy super-cheap hosting providers than with the language itself.