No, I do realize that PHP in functional. I suppose I misstated my history a bit - I went from procedural to scripting languages, to functional to mostly OOP in languages that support both functional and OOP.
I would say that Python isn't closer to a pure OO language than PHP, rather it allows for more pure OO than PHP. I only say this because you can go pure functional in Python as well.
I would say that Python isn't closer to a pure OO language than PHP, rather it allows for more pure OO than PHP. I only say this because you can go pure functional in Python as well.