Over-abstractionism

Coming from the JEE world, I was used to adding several layers of abstraction for high level enterprise projects. Even back then, I was trying to evaluate the necessity of some of the layers. PHP is an interesting language, currently the most popular scripting (or maybe any programming) language at all for web projects. Developed naturally for non-developers without OOP nature (added in the next versions), loading everything on every single request, it lacks the concept of a number of complex layers with enterprise design patterns. Most projects follow flat-hierarchy, simple and straight forward structure (PHP doesn't support multithreading as well)… Continue Reading