I’m the same way, even for little side projects at work. Basic old-school PHP is effortless to setup and maintain on a server. It just works. This means my little side project can remain a little side project, instead of become a burden with a bunch of unnecessary complexity that modern frameworks introduce.

Anytime a hello-work tutorial starts with running a command that generates 50 boilerplate folders/files, I die a little inside.

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trumpdong 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What's your web server? To connect PHP with nginx you need a bunch of arcane configuration.

	▲	thenthenthen an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I loved php came bundled with OSX, you just run php -s portnumber (iirc) as and you have a php enabled webserver running locally, so fun for experiments and super convenient especially compared to nowadays… i would prolly use Python, so make venv, activate, etc etc.