I do not want to say that I am an expert in programming languages, nor a PHP guru. But with my experience in web development and discussions with other community leaders from the Java, Ruby, Python, Javascript communities and with my own working in team, I learned stuff and here's some of what I consider "hot", in the PHP world, ~~right now~~ <ins>in 2012</ins>.
I spent a few days reading and re-reading the Guzzle PHP REST Client library to use at it's best posssible. It took me more time than I wished, but thanks to them, I understood more of the Symfony2 EventDispatcher mechanism. Here I publish the Gist that I am going to use to import to my project at work. Use for your own good.
This is my current, as of July 2012, favourite development environnement configuration files, use it if you want. This is mostly for me when I switch computers.