How do you prepare your projects?

[eluser]jedd[/eluser]

Thanks gon a lot for this details reply, as MVC, has a lot of files, classes, functions. I think it should be drawn to save more time and to be reference later.

That reminds me - something to add to gon's list -- install and use [url="http://www.phpdoc.org/"]PHPDOC[/url]. (Or pick some other equivalent - this is the only one I've used.)

It ticks off the 'reference later' criteria, obviously, but I'm also finding it very good for highlighting possible duplications in functionality just by using its its class / method browsing features.