Zend Studio is a PHP integrated development environment designed to ease the work of PHP developers. The program is a full-featured code editing and debugging application that provides programmers with comprehensive facilities for speeding up the software development process.
Its interface is organized in panes, thus making it easy to use. Nevertheless, the wide range of features might make it seem a bit complicated for those who are looking for just a good editor with syntax highlighting.
Zend Studio allows you to create a new PHP project or open an existing one. The IDE supports the latest technologies, such as the Zend framework or the Eclipse Platform. The projects' components are displayed in tree-view, so you can easily navigate between application code, documents, libraries or JavaScript resources. Other navigation tools, such as annotations and the searching facility, are also provided to help you easily find reference points in your code.
The program includes a customizable code formatter and refactoring capabilities. You can configure your project by choosing the desired builders, code style and template, as well as project facets, task tags and references.
One of the best advantages of the program is that you can easily debug PHP code, either as a PHP web application, a PHP unit test or by creating a new debug configuration, where you get to choose your own script interpreter, variables, encoding settings, breakpoints and so on.
In addition to this, this IDE automatically detects the errors in your code and displays their type, path and location. Thus, you can navigate through the code to find and correct them easily.
To get your code into the repository, Zend Studio connects to both CVS and Subversion. Also, it provides FTP support and integrates with Git and GitHub.
Zend Studio is more than a code editor, as it provides developers with professional tools to improve their productivity. Code generation and assist, semantic analysis and code debugging are a few of the features that make this IDE suitable for professionals who want to develop applications quickly.
Limitations:
· 30 days trial period
What's New in This Release:
Build complete, end-to-end cloud-connected mobile apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone:
· Easily create, manage and test PHP Web Services (RESTful or RPC-style) using the Zend Server Gateway
· Use visual, drag-and-drop editors for client-side mobile interface prototyping and PHP Web Services creation
· Bind Web Services to mobile app widgets
· Easily debug Web Services using 'Debug Mode': a new integrated feature of Zend Studio 10 and Zend Server 6
· Generate platform-specific mobile projects for iOS, Android and Windows Phone (powered by Apache Cordova)
· Test your mobile app on an emulator or a target device
Write Zend Framework 2 code more efficiently:
· Quickly create new Zend Framework projects, modules, view helpers and controllers
· Get content assist for services, helpers, controller variables inside views and configuration files
· View your project structure in MVC Outline view
Develop faster and more productively:
· Find new PHP editor features, full PHP 5.4 support, PSR-2 ...