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As all aptana fans know, Aptana PHP plugin was discontinued in Aptana 2.x, in favor of PDT.
But PDT is a joke, not suitable for professional PHP development, major features are missing.
So if you want to continue using Aptana PHP, that’s what need to be done:

1. Aptana -> Help -> Install New Software
2. Add http://update.aptana.com/install/php
3. Then select Aptana PHP and install it.

In case you don’t have yet a SVN plugin, go to

1. Aptana -> Help -> Install Aptana Features
2. Others -> Subclipse
3. Follow the instructions

DotKernel Template Engine is an implementation of PHPLib Template engine for PHP5.

It has an amazing ability to separate the application code from the presentation layer. Separates the manipulation of data (in the database as well as in PHP) from its final format, whether that format is HTML, XML or a formatted e-mail. The big advantage is that is allowing us to change the look and feel of a site quickly without having to delve immediately into a lot of PHP variable assignments and print statements.

Just found today a very interesting and helpful debug tool:

Scienta

We at DotKernel used some very basic debug bar:  queries, time spent , memory used.  But this Scienta is way more complex and nicer then our internal code,  so we switch to it and integrate it in DotKernel code base.

At first glance , the biggest news is AMF support:

Adobe’s Action Message Format protocol to your PHP 5 application

Download latest  ZF