zend studio

A few days ago Kevin Schroeder showed how to connect the Zend cloud services with the Zend Studio IDE.

In this new post he shows how to connect another popular IDE - PHPStorm.

We just wrapped up the 7th ZendCon event last week in Santa Clara, and the enthusiasm of the PHP community was inspiring.

PHP is gaining momentum across industries and geographies, powering the web, helping people build amazing apps with ease, proficiency and creativity.

In so many ways, PHP is making a difference, from legacy modernization to mobile app development and cloud deployments.

And PHP is the basis for Drupal CMS, Magento e-commerce, Joomla and Wordpress, platforms used by millions of people.

Every now and then you run into this weird situation in your code, where something that was supposed to zig is now zagging and it makes no sense whatsoever.

For me this ends up happening in my unit tests since i’m not running everything in the browser everytime and since my tests usually run more scenarios then a regular browser run, that’s where the weird stuff happens.

So your obvious way out is to add a few var_dumps into the code and try to understand what is happening, if you are doing that: STOP!

As I recently noted, we have teamed with Adobe to deliver a solution for developers to rapidly deliver native, connected mobile applications.

This joint solution based on Adobe Flash Builder, Zend Studio and Adobe AIR enables users to use a common code base and target multiple devices including iOS, Android and Blackberry.

Cinder is a plug-in for your eclipse-based IDE (eclipse, Zend Studio, etc.) to display results of your Continuous Integration environment right inside your IDE.

We just released version 0.1.6, which you can install via the Eclipse Update Manager and the URL http://opensource.mayflower.de/cinder, then activating it via "Window -> Show View -> Other -> Cinder".

If you haven't heard of Cinder yet, here's a short summary:

Eclipse Helios (3.6) and Zend Studio 7.1 (and above) include a new version of Eclipse PDT, labeled 2.2. This new release uses a new repository for storing code reference information.

With these simple tips you can significantly improve the performance of this repository which will speed up code completion, searching for definitions, type hierarchy views and more.

I am using Zend Studio for my everyday PHP work, and I like it.

I know many others do too, or use PDT. It has one very cool – though not widely known – feature that allows you you to add unknown extensions to code completion.

I.e., if you have some extension, create stub file with PHPDOC descriptions – i.e. something like this:

In this new post to his blog Gonzalo Ayuso talks about his quest for the perfect PHP IDE (well, for his needs at least) and several of the contenders he tried out along the way.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Brandon Savage's Blog: Installing PHP 5.3 On Ubuntu
• NETTUTS.com: Kohana: The Swift PHP Framework
• SitePoint.com: How To Handle File Uploads With PHP
• Jeremy Zawodny's Blog: Database Abstraction Layers Must Die!
• SitePoint PHP Blog: How to Install PHP 5.3 on Windows

Zend Studio is a great IDE and we use it a lot at Ibuildings (in addition to NetBeans, PDT and Vim).

One of the nice features is the code formatter that helps develop code according to agreed standards, which is useful to keep projects consistent.