> If you're programming in PHP, you're not running around talking about "convention over configuration" giving talks, or trying to make your code beautiful. It's a garbage language, and you know it.

This is exactly right. The right philosophy for PHP is to embrace the garbage. When you're done with a request, and have spit out all the HTML to the client, the server is going to throw everything away. So don't build a beautiful object tree to describe everything, just do the minimum amount of work to take the garbage input and generate the garbage output, and be done. Don't worry too much about your code being beautiful, because it lives in a dump.

This may sound negative, but working in a dump means you don't have to worry about appearances while you do what you came to do. You can always take a shower on the way out :)