[ilyak]

"most things become popular for very good reasons" Sure. But those reasons are gone. Long gone. So please, wrap it out already.

"that is what a web server does" Did. Most PHP apps don't use /some-article.php and /another-article.php with relevant PHP files under those names, that would be bizzare. There surely is A routing FRAMEWORK those days.

"One PHP file per page is also not true" ...if you're using A FRAMEWORK.

"There is also no 'default templating', I can pipe to, or make PHP calls from the command line" So what? There's still default templating outside <? ?> And that's what you use unless you've got A FRAMEWORK.

Do you see a pattern here? The pattern is that you didn't read my comment, you used regexes instead. Sadly.