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PHP's amenability to shared hosting environments is an advantage I failed to mention.

I'm pretty much in the same place as you with regards to PHP: I know it like the back of my hand and everything and everybody works with it. But the code is ugly compared to other languages and I really want method chaining, dammit. Plus, of course, I don't want to have to write an MVC framework every time I want to do something.

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Unless you're being more specific than I think you are, PHP5 has basic support for method chaining, I use it all the time.

I use structures like this in PHP5 all the time:

  $object->doThis()->doThat()->doTheOther();

But maybe he is referring to method chaining using PHP's built-in functions. There isn't a way that I'm aware of to do the following (short of wrapping the built-in functions with your own classes):

  $string->preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z]+/","_")->trim()->upper();

Precisely what I meant, thanks for clarifying.

But this is not method chaining, that's simple function nesting, and can easily be done as:

$string = preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z]+/","_", trim(upper($string)));

Or am I missing your point?

Re: MVC re-writing. I settled on Zend Framework and havn't looked back. http://framework.zend.com/ (link added)

> I really want method chaining, dammit

What? We've been doing code like:

    filter('user')
        ->first_name->like('bob')
        ->age->equals('22')
        ->order_by->created->desc
        ->find();

Since 5.2.x

Method-chaining has been there for a while.

I keep happening upon projects with their own craptacular homebrew MVC framework, and their own abysmal homebrew caching.

Fix is a swap for yii and memcached -- feel free to choose your faves.

something tells me you don't know what method chaining is

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