Customizing and Registering Zend Studio

Zend Studio now enables you to customize your working environment according to the specific requirements that your project entails. Plugins can be added and removed according to your preferences, ensuring a much lighter and faster operation of Zend Studio.

The Zend Studio Plugin List includes widely used plugins such as CVS, SVN, RSS, etc.

See the List of Available Plugins for more information.

In This Tutorial You Will Learn

To customize Zend Studio by adding and removing the plugins you want to work with. The Welcome page includes a list of available plugins, which you can add or remove from your Zend Studio.
To register Zend Studio. Once Zend Studio is installed, all its features will be available for a 30 day trial. To enable full features after this period of time, you will need to register the product.
To unregister Zend Studio. Unregistering Zend Studio will enable you to change the license number.

Prerequisites

An installed Zend Studio 9.o or above. To install Zend Studio go to http://www.zend.com/en/downloads.
A valid Zend Studio license. For more information on purchasing a Zend Studio license go to http://shop.zend.com/en/zend-studio-for-eclipse.html.

Step 1: Customizing Zend Studio

After installing Zend Studio, your project may require plugins that are not included in the product's download. All plugins are available from within the product and can be removed if you no longer need them.

Installing Plugins

In this tutorial you will be adding the Eclipse Color Theme and Mylyn plugins.

To add the Eclipse and Mylyn plugins:

Go to Help | Welcome to open the Zend Studio Welcome screen.

From the plugin list on the right, mark the Eclipse Color Theme and Mylyn check boxes, and click Apply changes.

When prompted, click Restart Now.
Zend Studio now includes the Eclipse Color Theme and Mylyn plugins.

Note:

If you do not restart Zend Studio, the changes will not be applied.

Uninstalling Plugins

To remove the Eclipse Color Theme and Mylyn plugins:

Go to Help | Welcome to open the Zend Studio Welcome screen.

Unmark the Eclipse Color Theme and Mylyn plugins and click Apply changes.
When prompted, click Restart Now.
Zend Studio restarts with the plugins uninstalled.

Note:

At any stage prior to applying changes and restarting Zend Studio, clicking on Restore will revert to current settings.

List of Available Plugins

To learn more about the available plugins, hover over the relevant plugin and click Learn more.

Amazon Web Services support - See Amazon AWS Toolkit for Zend Studio.
Ant
Code Gallery
CVS- See CVS.
CVS Mylyn Integration
Eclipse Color Theme
ExtJS Support - See JavaScript Libraries.
Git and GitHub
Git Mylyn integration
JavaScript debugging - See JavaScript Debugger.
jQuery support - See JavaScript Libraries.
Mylyn- See Mylyn Integration.
PHPDocumentor - See PHPDocs.
Prototype support - See JavaScript Libraries.
RSS - See RSS Feeds.
SVN - See SVN.
SVN Mylyn integration
VMware Workstation support - See VMware Workstation Integration.
WSDL support - See WSDL - Web Services Description Language.
Apache Derby enablement
IBM DB2 enablement
MSSQL enablement
Oracle enablement
PostgreSQL enablement
SQLite enablement

Step 2: Registering Zend Studio

Once Zend Studio is installed, all its features will be available for a 30 day trial. At the end of the 30 day trial, the professional features will be disabled. These include refactoring, getter and setter generation, new PHP element creation wizards, Zend Framework integration, profiling, PHPUnit testing, Zend Server integration, debugging through tunneling, advanced code formatting, code galleries and more.

To enjoy the full range of Zend Studio functionality, you should register a valid license. You can purchase a Zend Studio license from the Zend Store.

To register your Zend Studio:

If your Zend Studio is already running, close and reopen it. If it is not already running, open Zend Studio.
A Zend Studio Trial screen appears.

Select Provide your license key, and enter the key in the field below.
If you do not have a license, go to the Zend Studio product page and click Purchase Now.
Click Continue.
Your registered Zend Studio opens.

You can now begin working with your Zend Studio or see additional Tutorials.

Unregistering Zend Studio

If you wish to change the license key for Zend Studio you will first need to unregister. Once you unregister Zend Studio, all professional features will become disabled after 30 days.

To unregister Zend Studio :

Go to Help | Unregister.
When asked to confirm the unregistration process click OK.
Zend Studio restarts unregistered.