Zend Studio Components

Zend Studio consists of two main components:

Zend Studio - IDE

Zend Platform  - This independent application provides remote interaction capabilities for working with remote servers

Zend Studio

A powerful IDE for writing and maintaining PHP applications, Zend Studio provides a feature rich environment that includes the following development tools:

Debugging -  Control the running process of your PHP application and receive valuable information on errors, call stack, variables and output.  

Project and File Management - Manage your files and folders in Zend Studio, including FTP functionality.  

Project Inspector and File Inspector- For viewing and navigating functions, constants, soap clients etc.

Code Completion - Offers a wide selection of code completion features, including PHP, HTML, classes, member variables, variables, keyword, and object code completion listings. Lists are comprised from declarations as well as most of the standard PHP and HTML.

Code Templates - Templates help to write code quickly and accurately. Templates are shortcuts used to insert a framework for the segment of code you are about to write.

Syntax Highlighting - Apply automatic text highlighting to different syntax elements.

Code Indentation - Use "as you type" automated indentation or apply Auto Indentation "all at once" - to format PHP code according to convention.  

Online PHP Manual- Find out more about a PHP function by directly referencing the online PHP manual opened in Zend Studio's Browser window (one button activation).  

Go to navigation - Provides multiple methods for jumping to the text and code you want.

Customizable Shortcut keys -  Define and customize keyboard shortcuts based on commonly used keystrokes to accommodate user preferences.

Version Control -  Zend Studio integrates directly with CVS and Subversion content management systems.  

Zend Platform

Designed for IT personnel and businesses that require industrial-strength applications in highly reliable production environments, Platform offers high performance and scalability to provide the best possible Web experience and response time.

Platform uniquely guarantees application up-time and reliability through enhanced PHP monitoring and immediate problem resolution, removing troubleshooting and guesswork out of the equation.

Platform is a browser-based application, that includes the following functionality:

Zend Central - Central management functionality

PHP Intelligence - Monitoring and event generation capabilities

Performance - Performance enhancement tools

Studio Server Component - Integration settings and PHP configurations

Session Clustering - Session clustering statistics

Java Bridge - incorporate a Java environment to enrich your applications  

The Platform functionality is given unlimited for a 30 day trial period. In this time users can experience and evaluate Platform features such as Performance, PHP Intelligence, Session Clustering and the Java Bridge.

To find out more about Platform's advanced workflow, performance and analysis features please see the Platform User Guide and learn how you can leverage these features to improve your organization's work processes product quality and performance.

Studio users will be able to use Platform to replace the formerly used Standalone Studio Server Component. With Platform's Server Component, users will be given the necessary functionality for working with remote servers.

The Zend Platform Server Component functionality includes:

Remote debugging and profiling capabilities to remote Web servers

Facilitates setting up a PHP-enabled Web servers (even if one does not already exist)  

Zend Debugger

Zend Server Center

Apache Web Server

PHP 4 and 5 support

Platform has a separate browser based user interface that is accessed from:

http://<your-host>:<port>/ZendPlatform/.

 

Use the password as you defined in the Platform Installation.

 

 

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