Zend Studio is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for professional developers that encompasses all the development components necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle.
Through a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization, database tools and testing Zend Studio 5 speeds development cycles and simplifies complex projects.
To reflect varying developers' needs, Zend Studio comes in two editions: Professional and Standard
Zend Studio now includes a free developer license for Zend Platform allowing you to increase the reliability and maximize the performance of your application before deployment.
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What's New
Version 13.0.0:
Noteworthy Changes
PHP 7 Support
Return Types Declaration
Combined Comparison (Spaceship) Operator
Null Coalesce Operator
Group Use Declarations
Generator Delegation
Anonymous Classes
Uniform Variable Syntax
Context Sensitive Lexer
PHP 7 CLI executables available as add-on (Experimental)
PHP 7 Express Migration Assistant - scans the PHP 5.x code for potential PHP 7 problems
Functions that are no longer available in PHP 7
Dereferencing syntax that can have different meaning in PHP 5.x and PHP 7
Reserved words in PHP 7
Multiple default cases in a switch block
Docker Support
Tools for management of Docker Images and Containers
Integrates with the PHP Tools
PHP applications can be run, debugged and profiled on Docker Containers running Zend Server or other PHP stacks.
Tutorial: http://devzone.zend.com/6385/zend-studio-docker-support/
Git Flow Support with EGit 4.1
New in EGit 4.0: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/4.0.0
New in EGit 4.1: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/4.1.0
Git Flow support: https://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Working_with_Gitflow
PHP Editor improvements
New command and quick fixes for organizing use statements
Syntax coloring for visibility keywords (private, protected, public)
Improved smart indentation and paste performance
Variable comment can be now easily inserted with quick fix
Semantic Analysis improvements
Overall performance improvement
Performance improvements for undeclared method/field validator
New "Deprecated API" validator
New "Reserved types" validator (PHP 7)
New "Multiple default cases in a switch" validator (PHP 7)
"Bad escape sequence in string" validator adjusted to PHP 7
New "Ambiguous evaluation of variable-variable constructions" validator, quick fix for detected cases
New "Functionality removed in PHP 7" validator
Ability to filter PHP 7 and Deprecated API errors/warnings in Problems view
Debugger improvements
Automatic detection of installed debugger type for local and remote Zend Server
Finding "best match" client host/IP for newly created server with Zend Debugger on board
Detection and removal of redundant client hosts/IPs for Zend Debugger client configuration
Reporting invalid or not accessible client hosts/IPs for Zend Debugger client configuration
Reporting client hosts/IPs for Zend Debugger configuration that are not available in allowed hosts list in server side configuration
Zend Debugger Tunneling settings have been moved from 'Tunnel' to 'Debugger' tab in PHP server wizard and edit dialogs
Added dialog that notifies user about incoming XDebug "external" session request if 'Allow remote session (JIT)' option is set to 'off'.
Zend Studio as a Plug-in
Can be installed on top of existing Eclipse installation
Available on the Eclipse Marketplace
Other improvements
Eclipse Platform updated to version 4.5.1 Mars.1: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/platform.php
Zend Framework 1 updated to version 1.12.15
Zend Framework 2 updated to version 2.4.7
Internal text editor is used instead of the OS system editor as default editor for unknown file types: http://kaloyanraev.blogspot.com/2015/04/making-text-editor-to-be-default-one.html
"Refresh using native hooks or polling" enabled by default for Windows
The Remote Systems view is moved next to the PHP Explorer view - default location for the PHP perspective
Improved icons quality for dark theme
New option for editors - "Close Tabs to the Left/Right"
Added "Default PHP Web Server" check-box in wizards for creating different kinds of PHP projects. Choosing this option will cause a PHP project to be always assigned to the server that is currently marked as a default in a workspace.
"Deployment" tab in PHP servers wizard/edit dialogs has been renamed to "Web API" and moved to the second position right after the "General" settings
"Edit Server" dialog restores its previous size and location with every run.
PHP servers table available in "Servers" preference page can be sorted both by name and URL.
Path mapping table available in server editor can be sorted now both by server and local path.
Path mapping table available in server editor gained new column which indicates whether particular mapping has been added automatically by Studio or by the user.
Path mapping dialog has been improved to make adding mappings easier.
Noteworthy fixes
Fixed issue starting Zend Studio on Fedora 22
Composer console cleaned from invalid characters
Fixed performance issue after save with active Outline view
Fixed performance problem with file with many array assignments
Fixed content assist performance bottleneck inside strings
Fixed Studio freeze during PHPDoc generation
Fixed getter/setter/undeclared methods generation
Fixes for PHPDoc generation
Fixed problem with duplicated namespaces in content assist
Fixed problem with duplicated constructor proposal in content assist
Keywords $this/static/self added to content assist for @return tag
Added support for $this and static phpDoc keywords in content assist
Fixed problem causing NullPointerException while running PHPUnit tests for the very first time
Fixed problem with exporting Apigility production ZPK packages.
Discontinued features
DBeaver is removed from Welcome screen. It is still possible to install it following the instructions on the DBeaver web site: http://dbeaver.jkiss.org/download/#eclipse
View the complete release notes.
Requirements
Intel, 64-bit processor
OS X 10.10 or later
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