Throughout my years of PHP development, both in environments where I’m only acting as a developer because the staff was all laid off and I, as graphic artist, obviously had the know-how to start coding (just ask me about 2001), or as a genuine developer (more recently). It seems to be assumed that if you ask a PHP developer about his growth as a developer, he will mention first doing procedural code, then moving to function-based code, then OOP(object oriented programming), and finally landing at the stage where frameworks are designed & code takes on an elegant, almost mystical aura.

Well, I’ll just say it. Put it out there. Let it stand on its own merits.

_I don’t like MVC architecture in PHP, and will strenuously oppose developing in that environment._

I’ve toyed around with countless frameworks already developed (Symfony, Qcodo, Cake, &c) and I just don’t like it. Though limited in scope, the work I’ve done in Ruby on Rails has taught me the joys of the framework, and I can appreciate the beauty and stark cleanliness of the code: but PHP is not Rails.

That should be my new slogan. People on the PHP board seem to really, really, really want to make it into Rails, and I just don’t get it. The same people spend most of their free time talking about how terrible Ruby is. I can’t wrap my head around it.

So that’s it. Just me talking about how I’d rather write classes & do method calls all day than wrap myself into the taffeta and lace of the MVC structure.