On PHP and Libraries

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So much emphasis is placed on JavaScript libraries, but with PHP all of the attention is stolen by frameworks. While frameworks are nice, they do require quite a bit of learning and some major alterations to coding style — especially MVC frameworks. But sometimes it is nice to just have an aid, a simple helping function, instead of a core ...

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