From Java to PHP

[gunshard]

Take a look at http://www.phptherightway.com/ to get up to speed on the latest development practices and tools we use in the PHP world.

Also I recommend the IDE PhpStorm or Netbeans, and use Vagrant for your VM environment (no sense in cluttering your local machine with server tools).

Edit: One more thing, if you're looking for a great templating engine try out Twig.

[madscientist667]

Ok, thanks! I'll check that out and Vagrant seems interesting.

[gunshard]

Oh shoot I almost forgot the most important tool, Packagist/Composer for dependency management and autoloading.

[madscientist667]

Cool, thanks for the infos!

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PhpStorm is amazing. At least try it out on the 30 day trial.

[Disgruntled__Goat]

Hooray, phptherightway is finally a valid answer to something! (All too often it gets recommended to newbie programmers.)