So whats the deal with this then?

PHP-Editors_com

Anyone here ever used Zend Studio then??

PHP-Editors_com

OK, Zend is pretty good, its writen in Java and runs on lots of platforms including Linux. The Debugging is great also. Obviously this come at a cost though.
I will reply back here once I have fully tested it to give my results.

Anyone else here used the latest version ?

getDizzle

I've been using 2.6 for about a week now. I love it. It's pretty much the Visual Studio for PHP. I write object oriented almost exclusively. Zend has a file inspector that will list all the methods and members of a class on the left. What's more, if you have a remote site open and are trying to call methods from a custom class, it will show a list of methods from your class and let you autocomplete. It will also list the arguments once you've typed out the method or function. This is truly THE IDE for OO PHP programmers.

Its only flaw is that it uses about 100mb of system RAM so you better have a pretty decent system running this app.

tranzparency

I've was using Zend 2.5 since it came out and moved up to 2.6 once it was available. The new CVS integration was a huige boost for my ability to track my work. I love this IDE and wouldn't dream of using anything else.

It gives you the ability to use PHPDoc on the fly to documented your class & functions. It keeps track of of class, function, & variables scope really well. It does lose that ability when you are 2 include files deep in your code though. There are so many nice things that Zend does.

One little querk is that you can't delete files from the file manager. This is an extremely annoying issue, I wish they would have solved, but a small price to pay for all the other things you get.

I recommend Zend to anyone serious about their PHP.

jphilapy

Off the subject a little bit but here is a tip:

One little querk is that you can't delete files from the file manager. This is an extremely annoying issue, I wish they would have solved, but a small price to pay for all the other things you get.
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If on windows create a folder on your desktop called trash. Mount this folder in every project that you setup in zend. When you want to delete a file from a zend project, just drag the file to the folder titled trash. Then when you ready to take out the trash just go to your desktop and delete all items in the trash folder.

Jeff

dvdv

I'm confused. Some people say that one of the great things about zend studio is it's debuggin capabilities. But I'm having a problem where the debugger is giving me a 'call to undefined function' error on ldap functions (which the editor happily autocompletes).

The script is working fine, but the debugger gets hung up making itself useless. So I've been told that the zend debugger IS useless. If anyone knows how to make it otherwise I'd love to hear about it.

_SuperString

Is it possible that Zend's debugger is actually php_dbg (a third party dll)? if this is true then you may find you have the wrong dll version of php_dbg - they have a many different versions available - you should check you PHP version agianst this.
I cant remember the URL - but search on google should turn it up.

MikeRoche

I think you forgot that Zend is using java for debugging...that's why it wil crash every time while debugging...
Here you will find best debugger for IDE's.
http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/
PHPEd is using this debugger
www.phped.com