In the days since I began programming in PHP the web has come a long way. With the 5.3 release of PHP, the OOP side of things are finally getting a much needed polish. In the past year there's been a steady rise in the usage of Ruby on Rails for web development as programmers are discovering that coming up with an idea for a site is far more enjoyable than programming one. Rails offers a very rapid application development environment to get from concept to code in a minimal number of steps. Unfortunately, PHP has been lacking in this regard. PHP needs a standard framework and easy database interaction. Currently, the steps required to go from concept to code brings with it a huge overhead in scaffolding development.
