A professional-grade development environment that includes PHP code editing, debugging, profiling, unit testing and diagnostic utilities, Zend Studio is an Integrated Development Environment that has been designed to maximize developer productivity by helping in faster code development & improved team collaboration.
Based on Eclipse PHP Development Tool (PDT), a popular open source project, Zend Studio not only ensures a highly reliable and standardized development environment, but also offers more than 1,000 Eclipse plug-ins such as Mylyn for Application Lifecycle Management, JSON Editor and Adobe Flex Builder. The Open Eclipse architecture allows users to customize their environment based on their development or testing needs.
Features like re-factoring, code generation, code assist and semantic analysis combine to enable rapid application development on both the server side (in PHP) and browser side (In Java Script). Developing a production like environment for running and debugging PHP applications is easy as the Zend Studio offers Integration with VMware workstation.
Developers can find and resolve problems quickly by comprehensive PHP and JavaScript debugging, built-in unit testing and Zend Server integration for application monitoring and diagnostics. Zend Studio offers support for both local and remote debugging, integrated PHP and Java script debugging, profiling, code inspection, quick fix, test-generation, and reporting.
Zend Studio helps webmasters to deliver a richer user experience by offering the most up-to-date development environment for open source professionals. It supports the latest technologies such as PHP 5.3, Zend Framework and the latest Eclipse platform ensuring that your run time environment is always up-to date with the latest advancements. Besides this, it also offers robust team –oriented features that improve collaboration between team members.
Develop and Maintain Code Faster
With enhanced development capabilities of the Zend framework users can create high-quality code quickly and
- Write, Run queries for all popular databases
- Reuse Java code through Zend Server’s Java Bridge
- Syntax highlighting, code folding, code completion, code formatter, In-place code refactoring, variable/method extraction, code generation using the Zend Framework Zend_Tool
- Undertake Semantic analysis and implement quick fix suggestions
Tight integration with Zend Framework
It helps users to
- Easily detect and pinpoint problems during development, testing, and after the application is deployed to the production environment
- View performance and functional issues detected by Zend Server from within the Zend Studio user interface
- Reproduce and debug any problem detected in the test lab or in the production environment using the data captured by Zend Server
- Debug and profile your application locally or on the server
- Leverage advanced debugging features such as conditional breakpoints, stack trace view
Improve Team Collaboration by:
- Using CVS or Subversion for source configuration control directly from within Zend Studio
- Perform Unit Testing using the integrated PHPUnit
- Ensuring consistent code documentation with PHPDocumentor
- Using Tasks and To-Do lists to manage open action items
- Accelerating setup for new developers and sharing project settings across the team
Zend Studio System Requirements
Enterprises that require Zend Studio Solutions for their business requirements need the following system specifications to install Zend Studio:-
Supported Operating Systems
- Windows 2000 (x86 and x86-64)
- Windows XP (x86 and x86-64)
- Windows Vista (x86 and x86-64)
- Windows 7 (x86 and x86-64)
- Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x86-64)
- Linux (x86 and x86-64)
- Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Minimum System Specifications
- 800MHz processor (1.5GHz processor recommended)
- 1024 MB RAM
- 700MB hard disk space
PHP Compatibility
Supports PHP version 4.x and above
VMware Workstation Integration
VMware Workstation 7.x or above (7.1.1 recommended)
