---
title: "My PHP Problems"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-php-problems-umctr6aug
source_url: https://www.dantleech.com/blog/2024/02/18/my-php-problems/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-02-19T12:53:09.990Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:28:18.744Z
tags: ["php"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 39
comments: 4
language: en
---

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# My PHP Problems

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 9 min read · 39 upvotes · 4 comments

## Summary

A subjective post about things that annoy the author in PHP, including issues with constructors, annotations, serialization/deserialization, variadic promoted properties, iterator to array conversion, short closures, statement blocks, functions returning false, and lack of support for inline classes.

## Full article

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mykytanikitenko42** · 1 upvotes

> Back in 2012, an article titled "PHP: a fractal of bad design" was written. Unfortunately, nothing has changed since then.

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