Looking to crash course myself in php

[Matt Graham]

From: Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org>
> On Jun 18, 2009, at 10:35 AM, Stephen wrote:
>> Anyone have any fun tools to get started in building php code
>> (primarily for web application)
> Eclipse was my favorite IDE for PHP.  http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/
> But, it's an IDE, not just an editor.  You get more features,
> but you pay the price in load times and complexity.

It was actually easier to write Makefiles by hand than to use
kdevelop for a reasonably complex GTK+ project.  Then again, that's
C/C++ not PHP.

> Starting w/ a simple editor and the PHP manual might be the best
> way to go.

Yeah.  The main use for IDEs is in debugging and navigating through
giant forests of code that other people have written that are set up
in ways that make no sense.  Then, you need some way to get to the
definition of RTFBrokerClassWithNameTooLong so you can find why
it's barfing, but vim/emacs and exuberant-ctags can help a lot with
that.  

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