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Most professional PHP developers I've anecdotally worked with use a Model-View-Controller pattern these days, where the SQL is abstracted away in the model under something like Doctrine2-DBAL, Propel2 or PDO. If I was hiring for a developer and they suggested putting raw SQL in the view layer, I would reject them. If I received a pull request from my team which did the same, I would reject it.

You seem unnecessarily argumentative about this, almost like you're angry and I really don't understand why. There really isn't that much difference between languages like Ruby and PHP to warrant this and almost anything can be expressed in almost the same way, the only real differences are syntactic sugars and the "flexible" type system.

This exactly. Never been a PHP developer, but I did get handed a PHP webapp to copy some functionality out of for a replacement C# webapp. I was a little surprised to find out that it was written in a rather Rails-like architecture using some PHP MVC library, I think it was CakePHP. Rails was a hit, and a great step forward in web development, so naturally every other language copied as much of it as possible, including PHP. There may be plenty of weird quirks about the language still, but at least the architecture is much improved.

Many/most PHP platforms these days do claim to be either MVC or Rails-based or both. CakePHP is not a bad example there. There are however a few other very large projects whose take on MVC is lacking to some degree. Drupal is not bad, Joomla is worse, and of WordPress the less said the better. Note also that those projects are listed in order of increasing popularity.

Modern PHP frameworks and tools are good, perhaps even excellent. Composer and the PSR-# efforts have spurred a renaissance in code quality and interoperability, and PHP7 brings some truly impressive speed improvements. For those of us who aren't stuck supporting legacy code, that is. One of these days I will be working with a language whose syntax I enjoy, but until then the language that puts the "sin" in "syntax" will (for better or worse) keep getting the job done.

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