I find it a bit funny that all the recommendations here are of php frameworks and none that are projects built in php outside of that
It should be no surprise that structured and organized PHP is better than raw PHP, and that examples of well written PHP would probably involve a framework.
Although I suppose it could be argued that since PHP is intended for the web, it shouldn't need a framework, and it should support more of the features a framework provides out of the box than it does. Nevertheless, the pattern of a framework is as useful in PHP for the same reasons as it is elsewhere, so I don't believe it says anything negative about the language per se.