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copied!<p>I'll do <strong>PHP</strong> as I like it at times and Python will be done way too much.</p> <ul> <li><p>No namespace; everything is in a kind of very big namespace which is hell in bigger environments</p></li> <li><p>Lack of standards when it comes to functions: array functions take a needle as a first argument, haystack as second (see <a href="http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.array-search.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">array_search</a>). String functions often take the haystack first, needle second (see <a href="http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.strpos.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">strpos</a>). Other functions just use different naming schemes: <a href="http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.bin2hex.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bin2hex</a>, <a href="http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.strtolower.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">strtolower</a>, <a href="http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.cal-to-jd.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">cal_to_jd</a> </p> <p>Some functions have weird return values, out of what is normal: This forces you to have a third variable declared out of nowhere while PHP could efficiently interpret an empty array as false with its type juggling. There are near no other functions doing the same.</p> <pre><code>$var = preg_match_all('/regexp/', $str, $ret); echo $var; //outputs the number of matches print_r($ret); //outputs the matches as an array </code></pre></li> <li><p>The language (until PHP6) does its best to respect a near-retarded backward compatibility, making it carry bad practices and functions around when not needed (see <a href="http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-escape-string.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mysql_escape_string</a> vs. <a href="http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mysql_real_escape_string</a>).</p></li> <li><p>The language evolved from a templating language to a full-backend one. This means anybody can output anything when they want, and it gets abused. You end up with template engines for a templating language...</p></li> <li><p>It sucks at importing files. You have 4 different ways to do it (include, include_once, require, require_once), they are all slow, very slow. In fact the whole language is slow. At least, pretty slower than python (even with a framework) and RoR from what I gather.</p></li> </ul> <p>I still like PHP, though. It's the chainsaw of web development: you want a small to medium site done real fast and be sure anybody can host it (although configurations may differ)? PHP is right there, and it's so ubiquitous it takes only 5 minutes to install a full LAMP or WAMP stack. Well, I'm going back to working with Python now...</p>

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