Subject: Re: [WSG] Will HTML be nicer to PHP than XHTML? >Personally, I believe this is one of the strong argumens for XHTML. PHP is >very sloppy, and when you combine that with another sloppy language, HTML, the >>mess is tremendos. For small projects and new people it's not much of an >issue, but try to maintain a large codebase without it being incredibly buggy.
>Using XHTML forces you towards good practices, something that is good to do >from the begining before you develop those bad habits. I don't know who was >objecting to using XHTML, but IMHO it will interfere with you learning of PHP >less than HTML because it will force you to know what your doing, which is >>the point of learning. In PHP's defence, stupid sloppy code can be written in ANY language. (Don't believe me? Head over to http://www.thedailywtf.com and see some real-world examples.) PHP's lack of pickiness (compared to Java for example) is what has allowed it to be accessible to so many people, without requiring the very steep learning curve some other languages require. Good developers write good code. Period. let me repeat again. THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN BAD HTML AND PHP. This thread needs to die.
