PHP, as the result of a spectacular error of judgement, appears to be written in US English. How do we developers ensure the traditions of the British Empire continue to be upheld, even in the digital age?

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This post explores the changes that British PHP developers would like to make to PHP, including replacing symbols with more refined alternatives, using a more formal language in code examples, eliminating unnecessary abbreviations, adjusting conditional code structures, correcting spelling errors, introducing more polite error handling, and adding a class hierarchy system.

If PHP Were British

🤣 The manners bit got me good
<pre><code class="language-php">try {
 // Code here
} catch (Exception $e) {
 // Handle exception
 die(&#x27;Message&#x27;);
}
</code></pre>
<pre><code class="language-php">would_you_mind {
 // Code here
} actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) {
 // Politely move on
 cheerio(&#x27;Message&#x27;);
}
</code></pre>

I suppose “we escaped a catastrophe” should be in order.

Ok I was totally not expecting for such a masterpiece.
Maybe I should write a brazilian portuguese version of this same article lol.

$variable
would become
£variable