Re:We used PHP for our last product, but... (Score 1)

Naming conventions in PHP are definitely ackward, I wrote a library of aliases so all the functions I use have one naming convention and I don't have to remember if XYZ function uses an underscore or not. As for errors/warning, you can use error_reporting(E_ALL); but most of the things it'll report on should be fairly obvious already and a lot of detailed and harder to find things will slip by.