How do I go about PHP?
floodfx: Take advantage of the object oriented features (classes, inheritence, etc)  Write unit tests early and often.  Re-read the docs; some of the PHP functions are inconsistently parameterized -- meaning one function expects params in one order and a simliar function expects the params in the opposite order!  (Can't think of those functions off the top of my head but there I swear...)  Just be careful.  PHP is forgiving (almost?) to a fault