Building PHP extensions in Intellij

Hi All -

I've been interested in doing some PHP extension development using C / C++. I've found a number of tutorials out there (such as this resource page: http://simonholywell.com/post/2010/09/15-excellent-resources-for-php-extension-development.html) but have not found a good tutorial on setting up an extension development environment in an IDE. Has anyone here tried to get an environment set up in Intellij? If so, do you have tips / resources I can use to do the same? I tried once before but couldn't figure out how to get something set up to build properly.

Thanks for any help you can provide,

-Jeff