You're all still stuck in the past. While OOP was introduced in PHP 4 as a mere afterthought, OOP in PHP 5.4 is actually quite accomplished. And to build on what Unintelligble said, I agree that it is pointless to default to OOP (but nobody was making the claim otherwise), but to use that as a reason to say it sucks? Please.

Working on (even semi)large scale applications, to not use OOP would be ridiculous. You should start using an MVC framework like Yii to experience firsthand just how beneficial it is.