PHP makes it clean: Probably the best thing about working with PHP is the ability to have it do all the heavy lifting and repetitive work. One thing I hate when working in large sprawling projects is when a client decides that they don’t like that one word in the footer… the word that happens to appear on some 80 pages. I learned some time ago that PHP was one great way to handle these hiccups. It’s much easier to change a portion of a template and have that automatically reflected across the entire project. Today I was working on a project for a client and it had been a few weeks since I had added a new page so I was almost taken aback when I opened my template file and was greeted with the stark simplicity of it. Brilliant!