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Daniel Pitts wrote:

> Although, on that topic, what is a good tutorial to get a basic overview
> familiarity with PHP language features and libraries?

The PHP online manual includes a PHP tutorial; that is probably the best one 
because it was written and is maintained by the people who designed the 
language.  PHP (like ECMAScript implementations) has that "beginner's 
language" touch that account for a lot of bad examples on the Web.  There 
are also a number of useful examples provided by experienced PHP developers 
on the bottom of manual entries.

The PHP manual is available in several languages, but I have always 
preferred the version in English even though it is not my native language; 
it is more precise and up-to-date than the translations.

<http://php.net/manual>

> Luckily, I'm a good enough programmer with several languages under my
> belt. Moving to a somewhat foreign language shouldn't be *too*
> difficult. A good IDE and Google will help for most of my immediate
> problems.

You should try Eclipse PDT [1], Zend Studio [2], or Aptana Studio 3 [3], all 
of which are based on the Eclipse Platform.  Properly configured, they can 
handle even rather large PHP projects (at least I can say that for the the 
former two).


PointedEars
___________
[1]
<http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-php-developers/heliosr>
(old PHP package)

<http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/> (because lack of maintainer, there is no 
PHP package for Juno; the Juno-compatible PDT version can be installed from 
within Eclipse)

(If you use the plain PDT, you might want to use Eclipse 3.7.x or 3.8 as 
base, because version 4.2 had been reported to be rather slow because of 
lack of regression testing.  This might have been fixed with the recently 
released 4.2 SR-1.  I have found the changelog for that to be empty and had 
therefore decided not to upgrade just yet.)

[2]
<http://zend.com/studio> (more features, including refactoring; but does not 
come for free)

[3]
<http://aptana.org/products/studio3/download> (AFAIK for free; I have not 
really tried this, but I hear that it has built-in Zend Framework [4] 
support)

[4] <http://framework.zend.com/>
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when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
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Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-02 08:40 -0700
  Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-10-02 18:08 +0200
    Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-02 09:50 -0700
      Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-10-02 19:26 +0200
        Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-02 11:36 -0700
      Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-02 22:56 +0200
      Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2012-10-02 23:16 +0100
      Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2012-10-03 10:15 +0200
        Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-03 09:26 -0700
  Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2012-10-02 10:33 -0700
  Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-10-02 13:37 -0400
    Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-02 11:38 -0700
  Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Jonathan Stein <jstein@image.dk> - 2012-10-03 10:02 +0200
    Re: Is Symfony 2 on-topic in this newsgroup? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-10-03 11:04 -0400

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