This is ongoing in the PHP community. For those who like purity there are tons and tons of wrapper classes that hide all that stuff away.<p>Modern IDEs autocomplete all the functions, I&#x27;m using PHPStorm and as soon as I type &#x27;arr&#x27; it shows me a list of all the array functions with parameters listed.<p>Not perfect, but if I was worried about that kind of thing I&#x27;d use Python (which I love) or RoR (which I also love).<p>The ethos of PHP is to just get stuff done: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;axonflux.com&#x2F;5-quotes-by-the-creator-of-php-rasmus-lerdorf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;axonflux.com&#x2F;5-quotes-by-the-creator-of-php-rasmus-le...</a>