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by KrisJordan 6388 days ago
Great question.

For editors I highly recommend Eclipse DPT: http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/

With a Java background I would think you'll feel right at home there.

Framework wise stay tuned to (shameless plug) http://www.recessframework.org - it's a framework I've been working on that makes greater use of the OO facilities in PHP5, is RESTful, and has a straightforward ORM. Public preview release soon.

CodeIgniter is written to run in either PHP4 or 5 which means it makes less interesting use of the PHP5 object model. If you're an OO nut I suggest staying in 5 and perhaps looking at Kohana.