Why Do People Hate Php? 64% People Do (8,880 opinions)

Its only fractionally better than Clarion
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Its only fractionally better than Clarion read all

by John on 13 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It encourages bad programming habits
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It encourages bad programming habits and any noob enjoy using it. read all

by M'hammed Amine A on 14 Mar - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
It's meddlesome. Many feature is not convenient
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It's meddlesome. Many feature is not convenient but pitfalls. read all

by Naoki I on 26 Dec - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Most PHP code sucks and is a mountain of
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Most PHP code sucks and is a mountain of unreadable garbage, plain and simple. This is not really a fault of the language but more due to the programmers themselves. read all

by William H on 21 Oct - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Its ugly!
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Its ugly! read all

by gelbander on 24 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
If you're using PHP, you've already failed.
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Every possible WTF, misfeature, and bad decision, kludged onto a language that actively encourages terrible application design. If you're using PHP, you've already failed. read all

by Jason L on 09 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Il peggior linguaggio del mondo
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Lento, mal strutturato, mal progettato. Permette facilmente di scrivere codice orribile ma è davvero difficile scrivere codice ben fatto. Nutre un'enorme schiera di programmatori incapaci e ignoranti. Ha creato una ... read all

by Fabrizio I on 30 Jun - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
A big steaming pile of patches.
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A big steaming pile of patches. read all

by Alex D on 20 May - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Ugly. Weird. Too easy to use so any doofus uses
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Ugly. Weird. Too easy to use so any doofus uses it. read all

by User-609boj on 24 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Just awful
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Just awful read all

by Mikko O on 24 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Because, its for "a la template" webmaster lang.
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Because, its for "a la template" webmaster lang. ugly and old concepts. No real OOP read all

by llermanos on 14 Sep - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
Its package management (pear) is really bad. Many
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Its package management (pear) is really bad. Many hobby-programmers build the PHP-"community". ZEND is unsexy. ZEND gave the PHP-community the crappy so-called "ZEND-Framework" which is more something like a toolbox. read all

by Guest-fxw09 on 16 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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ugly language, weak community
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ugly language, weak community read all

by Guest-fxw09 on 15 Apr - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
PHP wasn't meant to be a complete language. It
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PHP wasn't meant to be a complete language. It grew from a simple templating system into some monster. read all

by Szymon P on 23 Mar - 1 reply - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag
no unified exception-based error handling, no
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no unified exception-based error handling, no consistency in language API, monolithic interpreter (everything is built-in), no culture of quality, no leadership, not thread-safe & no threading API, unusable for long-running ... read all

by hozn on 25 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag

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What a crap language. No
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What a crap language. No coherence, no consistency, no unified error handling, half-baked implemented features, no packages (and now some crappy namespaces), no thread-safety, no threading API, monolithic interpreter model, ... read all

by hozn on 25 Feb - reply - Helpful? Thank You! - Flag