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With PHP you can break almost ever rule of good coding and somehow your site still works. I think of it as the Unix/Linux version of the old ASP, but better.
One of the advantages is the variable types, in terms of development time having PHP "guess" what type you want and auto-cast your variables helps out. You can also have strings as array keys and arrays can hold any type of variable (you can mix strings, integers, and object references all in one array for example). This may be seen as a disadvantage.
jshpro2 wrote:One of the advantages is the variable types, in terms of development time having PHP "guess" what type you want and auto-cast your variables helps out.
A perfect example of what I consider bad coding practice (not being explicit with your data types), but it does make coding easier. In the long run though I believe it causes more problems then benefits.