Zend Studio is a professional-grade PHP IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Zend Studio has been designed to maximize developer productivity by enabling users to develop and maintain code faster, solve application problems quickly and improve team collaboration.
Develop and Maintain Code Faster:
Zend Studio is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) available for professional developers providing the capabilities needed to develop business applications. Features like refactoring, code generation, code assist and semantic analysis combine to enable rapid application development.
Find and Solve Problems Quickly:
Zend Studio provides comprehensive debugging and testing support that helps you analyze and resolve problems quickly. Through support for both local and remote (on server) debugging, profiling, code inspection & quick fix, test generation & reporting, you have the tools you need to diagnose and resolve application problems quickly while ensuring your code starts out correctly. Tight integration with Zend Server speeds root cause analysis of problems detected in testing, staging or the production environment.
Improve Team Collaboration:
Zend Studio enhances productivity with team-oriented development features, such as support for source configuration management (CVS, SVN) and shared project settings. These features help improve collaboration between project members.
Leverage the Latest Technologies:
Zend Studio is the most up-to-date PHP IDE that supports the latest technologies such as PHP 5.3, Zend Framework, latest Eclipse Platform (Galileo) ensuring your environment is always up to date with the latest advancements.

Zend Framework Integration:
· Customized Framework Project Layout
· Zend Tool Integration
· Code Templates
· Example Project
· MVC (Model / View / Controller) Code Generation
· MVC View
· Coding Standards Formatter
· Semantic Awareness to View / Action Helpers
· Code Assist
PHP Refactoring:
· In Place Refactoring (Smart Rename)
· Extract Variable / Method
· Move Files and Folders
· Rename Files Classes, Function and Variables
PHP Code Generation:
· Getters / Setters for Variables
· Override / Implement Functions
· New PHP Elements Wizards (Class, Interface)
PHP Editor and File Management:
· Code Analysis & Quick Fix
· Quick New File Creation
· Code Formatter
· WSDL File Editor
· PHP 4 and PHP 5.X Support
· Syntax Coloring & Code Assist
· Mark Occurrences of Language Elements, Exit Paths and Requires
· Override Indicators
· Type Hierarchy of Classes and Methods
· Open Type / Method Dialogs
· Code Templates (PHP, PHPDoc, New File)
· Code Folding for Classes Functions and PHPDoc
· Real time Error Detection
· Bookmarks
· Internal Browser
· Smart Go-to Source and Hover Support
· Automatic Insertion
· Highlighted Matching Bracket
· Comment / Uncomment PHP code
· PHP Explorer View
· Search Text by Pattern
· Search PHP Element
· File / Project Outlines
· Find & Replace in Files
· Tasks List
· Project Include / Build Path
· Problems View
· Code Assist for Include Statement
JavaScript Support:
· Real time Error Detection
· jsDoc Support
· Syntax Coloring & Code Assist
· Code Formatting
· DOJO Support
· Integrated TODO Mechanism
HTML & CSS Support:
· Syntax Coloring & Code Assist
· HTML Real Time Error Detection
· Code Folding
· Automatic Closing Tag
· Code Formatting
PHP Debugging:
· Firefox / IE Toolbars
· Profiler
· Code Coverage
· Tunneling Support
· SSL Communication
· PHP Script Debugging
· Web Server / Remote Debugging
· Text Encoding Support
· Web Servers Management
Zend Server Integration:
· Auto Detection of Local Zend Server
· Servers View
· Zend Server Events List
· Import and Debug Zend Server Event
· Easy Project Creation on Zend Server
· Quick Debug Mechanism
· Debug & Profile Events
· Zend Server API
PHP Unit Testing:
· Code Assist
· Test Case / Suite Code Generation
· Test Results Visual Support
· PHP Unit Reports
· Stack Trace and Filtering
Remote Systems:
· SSH
· FTP
· SFTP
Database Connectivity:
· New Connection Intuitive Wizard
· Integrated JDBC Drivers
· Query Editor
· Editable Table Viewer
· Objects Tree - Tables, Views
Source Control:
· Subversion (SVN)
· CVS
· Team Project Set
· Local History
Miscellaneous:
· RSS Reader
· PHP Documentor Support
· Zend Code Gallery
· Zend Guard Integration
Zend Studio 5.X Migration:
· Zend Studio 5.5 Key maps
· Import Zend Studio 5.5 Projects

Requirements:
· 800MHz processor
· 256MB RAM
· 200MB of hard disk space

Limitations:
· 30 days trial period

What's New in This Release:
Resolved Tickets:
· 187947 - The Zend Framework Example project is configured with the
· correct buildpath entries
· 187838 - If one of the parameters is a function call parameter, the
· hint tooltip now shows the right hint
· 188440 - The Processing Dirty Regions error is no longer triggered
· with java.lang.StackOverflowError exception
· 187975 - The Zend Framework Tool no longer fails with the error "No
· tokenizer support"
· 188418 - In ODBC, db2 related functions are now shown in PHP Language
· libraries
· 186867 - The Zend Tool error "A project profile was not found" no
· longer appears
Resolved Bugs:
· In the Registration dialog, the "User Name / " section has been removed, with the "Order #" section remaining in its place
· The Semantic analyzer no longer shows an error/warning for duplicate class constants
· To help troubleshoot Zend Studio issues, you can now add a
· "showlocation" flag to the ZendStudio.ini (on Windows and Linux)