[eluser]techgnome[/eluser]
BEP - yes and no... depends on the situation... some of the more complex ones I do... like the definitions of my db record arrays... mostly about what fields I've got loaded at that point, prevents me from trying to access a field I didn't load. I do development professionally (just not PHP) so my philo is to try to name things what they are so that code becomes almost self documenting as much as it can. I don't use junk variables like $i unless I need a quick one for a loop where it doesn't mean much anyways (altho, I'll usually default to $counter).
n0xie - blah! That's cheating! Notepad... that's where the power is at!

- disclaimer: I don't use notepad anymore... I've evolved. I'm using Aptana Studio, which is pretty good. It even found some mal-formed HTML I had tucked into some of my PHP code, which I've now gotten straightened out.
-tg