Hi,
What development enviroment are you using to build your php applications? Does it have the nice code completioon (autocomplete) feature? If no, get Zend IDE (Integrated Development Enviroment – at least I guess).
Before discovering this Zend IDE with its powerfull features, I’ve been using Adobe Dreamweaver, which is nice but its more recommended in my opinion for a html coder.
On this Zend IDE, you can custom a lot of things like color highlighting, code autocompletion pop time. You will find features like debugging, etc.
It will make your work easier!