see my previous post on the topic, #1. My last post ended up more as a how-to than what-to. This time, I'll say why you should have local copies of the documentation for most of the tools you use. I'll also tell you the sort of things I always have handy as well. Getting a local copy of php.net - and getting installed …

When you have a library, like PEAR or Zend Framework – or even just the whole PHP language library – it’s absolutely vital you know what it can do. What you don’t know can cost you weeks of effort and pain. I found this out (again) today, but it’s not my pain – it’s an employee who was too busy deciding that the Zend …