Slumming it – php4 & procedural programming

After almost 2 years of exclusively programming in OOP php5 I ‘ve spent the last few months programming on a couple of projects in php4 & procedural based programming.

To say the least I feel like I’ve been regressing back several years. While WordPress & similar applications encourage API’s and plugins to be class based still the underlying application these run on are in general php4 class based architecture with only token gestures to framework & patterns.