“The right way to think about PHP is as Visual Basic for the Web.”
- Andi Gutmans, Zend co-founder and PHP developer

Now whenever anyone asks me why I’m not developing in PHP, I’m just going to quote Andi Gutmans… but then I’ll have to explain the problem with using Visual Basic, I’m sure.

My latest PHP frustatration: adding support for libcurl bindings requires recompiling PHP! In a normal scripting environment, you could just type
cpan> install WWW::Curl so you would expect pear install curl to work for PHP. But no, you actually have to recompile!! Unfortuantely, the flickr WP plugin requires php’s curl bindings.

/rajbot walks away, shaking his head and grumbling about the lack of block-level scope…

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