Add Zen Coding to Aptana Studio //

First of all, what is Zen Coding?

Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. The core of this plugin is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to expand expressions – similar to CSS selectors – into HTML code.

Source: zen-coding

In other words, Zen Coding will speed up and make you smile again, when creating HTML / CSS files.
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Adding PHP support to Aptana Studio 2 //

With the release of Aptana Studio 2, developers at Aptana decided to drop their PHP / Smarty plugin in favor to PDT.  Since PDT in Aptana 2 never really worked, they made a decision to include native PHP support in the upcomming 3.0 release, but until then, here’s a way to install the original PHP / Smarty support from Aptana 1.x.
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