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I am an expert Enteprise-class JSP/JSF and ASP.Net Programmer and wish to know if any PHP framework even comes close to proper replication of either of these fine enterprise products. While I initially scoffed at XML-expressed components and Enterprise data binding oriented expression languages, it actually began to grow on me.

MVC frameworks for PHP seem to leave out the V part. Templating frameworks leave out data binding. All the other stuff seems to be half-implemented JSRs.

Is PHP still the procedural magic-quotes MySQL-whore I remember it to be?

Is PHP still the procedural magic-quotes MySQL-whore I remember it to be?
In short, yes, although magic-quotes has been deprecated and people are starting to catch on to how shitty MySQL is. It's still impossible to write clean solid code if that is what you are asking. If anything, all the new additions to try and solve this problem have actually just made it worse. eg: lambdas, subclassing, access modifiers, duplicates of some libraries that are simply rewritten in an object oriented style, the list goes on..
The idea and spirit of PHP makes is very easy to develop in and the developers seem to capitalize on this a lot. It is a real shame that the design has been, and will be, fundamentally flawed for so long.