According to a recent study, PHP is one of the most popular programming languages in the world. In spite of this, PHP is often criticized for its inconsistent naming conventions, its lack of important features as compared to other languages (like namespaces) and its inherent disorganization. Furthermore, PHP is very easy to learn, and this has often led to the common misconception that most PHP developers are inexperienced and that their code is therefore prone to security vulnerabilities and exploits.
This is all true, to a certain extent. PHP itself offers virtually no real structure or organization, and thereby leaves coders free to express themselves in the most unpredictable and dangerous ways: programming logic mixed with presentation elements, disorganized inclusion of other source files anywhere in a script, unnecessary and often forgotten database connections, and so on. These are obvious and common mistakes that can make PHP code completely unmaintainable.
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