Zend Studio is a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP developed by Zend Technologies, based on the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plugin for the Eclipse platform (the PDT project is led by Zend).
Zend Studio is the leading IDE for professional PHP developers. Built upon the Eclipse PHP Development Tools project led by Zend, Zend Studio boosts developer productivity and facilitates standardization and team collaboration.
Zend Studio includes
- Advanced code editing, debugging and profiling
- Support for javascript development and integrated debugging
- zend-framework integration for faster coding
- Seamless deployment and testing on virtual and remote servers
- zend-server integration for problem detection and diagnosis
- Support for Agile development and over 1,000 Eclipse plug-ins
Resources
- Homepage of Zend Studio
- Feature List
- Comparison with the free Eclipse PDT Version (*)
- Zend Studio FAQ
(*) Some of the features marked as "not availible" are availible trough other plugins which only have to be extra downloaded (e.g. the use of Subversion is possible with Subversive or Subclipse).