as a php developer i’m using zend studio for eclipse on a daily basis. sometimes zend studio forgets about my zend framework projects, especially projects which are hosted on a SVN repository. i close my project, reopen it, and for no obvious reasons zend studio no longer recognizes it as a zend framework project. huch!?

until now i was unable to find a real solution to my problem, but here’s a little workaround which should get you up and running again, in case you’re running into the same problem.

close the project, then just open the .project file at the root of your project in your favourite text editor and check the ‘natures’ section, make sure it contains the following line:

that should do the trick.

I create a small Flickr API interface for PHP5 which takes advantage of the Overloading feature of PHP5.

Using the __call method we can dynamically create an interface to all the Flickr API functions using only a very small script.

The name of the class is purely ironic as it is a very simple and easy-to-use class and far from Overkill.

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