[LeonM]

> My main gripe with Php is editor support. Jumping around a code base is hard when you introduce slightly abstract class loading. The more 'typed' the language is, I guess makes editor help easier, with auto completion etc. But that is a disjoint or me.

If you are comfortable with IDEs, I strongly recommend PHPStorm. It is the one piece of software that I happily pay for each year. It increases my productivity and quality control to such degree that I wouldn't want to write PHP code without it.

> Editor support for functions is useful. I'm slightly embarassed still at the frequency of my manual lookups.

I've been writing PHP for 10 years now, and I still have to look up just about every function. I only recently discovered that PHPStorm supports displaying the PHP manual as you type, but that it is disabled by default.