configuring vim for drupal php files

generally speaking, vim is a pretty smart text editor. if you put the following in your .vimrc file

then it will color highlight your file appropriately. it chooses the appropriate color highlighting by looking at the file suffix (e.g. .java, .c).

unfortunately, the drupal .module and .inc files fool vim, because these are not standard php extensions. To tell vim to recognize .module and .inc files as php files, add the following to your .vimrc