Preamble: This series of articles deals with providing a generic model class for use in the Zend Framework.
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Something that keeps bothering me is how badly written the major CMS packages for PHP are. Yes, I’m talking about wordpress and drupal amongst others, that are so insanely popular but are just as insanely procedural hack-fest mess.

Lets get this out of the door - I’m an Object Oriented guy. I strongly believe OO methodology to be superior in so many ways to procedural code. Given that, I have seen procedural code that is very neatly organized (almost to the point that it emulates OO standards using function hierarchy). Wordpress and drupal code however, is not.
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