I'll have to say I disagree as well-- PHP with a good framework is a better language, hands-down. I don't enjoy coding raw PHP. Almost all of the frameworks are open source, and none of them forbid you from using raw PHP when you need to do so.
So the net recommendation is, get a framework that makes a lot of secure/clean decisions for you and diverge when you think they're reinventing the wheel too much.
So the net recommendation is, get a framework that makes a lot of secure/clean decisions for you and diverge when you think they're reinventing the wheel too much.