[prog] Starting from scratch with PHP

[Kelly Martin]

On 9/28/06, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:
> I would guess that MediaWiki contains good PHP code although I have not
> looked at it myself.  MediaWiki as you may know is what Wikipedia uses
> and I believe it was originally written specifically for Wikipedia.
> Therefore I would expect it to have a large development community and
> reasonable help for new developers which would be useful for you even if
> you do not intend to join the dev effort.

Actually MediaWiki is not very good PHP.  There is far too much
reliance on global variables, and there's quite a bit of
hacked-together stuff that is hard to make sense of (most notably, the
parser).

I keep a copy of the MediaWiki source around for reference, but every
time I think about working on it I take a look at it and remember how
much I hate PHP, and do something else instead.

Kelly