People keep defending PHP (as they have been for ages) saying things like "oh, it could happen to any platform, this one's just so popular so the odds are higher" but then you take a peek at the diff for this fix and realize that nothing has changed since Fractal of Bad Design was published a decade ago. PHP is a scourge and unfortunately a still too popular one. The best time to realize the only safe option is to stop using it was in 2010, the 2nd best time is now ..

yeah anyone wise migrated away from PHP ages ago. The fact it got lipstick on back with PHP7 doesn't make it a well designed programming language. At least in my experience the vast majority of PHP websites nowadays are old abandoned PHP5 projects, which aren't much worse than just slopping a rewrite in something else

It will take time if the PHP sites have a database with a business model built on PHP. But with agentic coding, at least it is easier. I already transferred all wordpress static sites to pure html.