In a follow up to a previous post, Chris Hartjes asks once again "where are the good development tools for PHP?" This time, though, he thinks he's found just the tool he was looking for:

Cal Evans over at the Zend Developer Zone gave me a heads-up that he would be posting a tutorial on using Flex and PHP. I believe my exact words to him after about 10 minutes of playing with it was "this is FUCKING cool!". Which it definitely is.

He talks about what he needed to get started and how his first experience with creating an application went - a simple app up and running (from install to a finished app) in about 30 minutes.

For more information on Adobe's Flex, check out their website at Flex.org.