Zend Studio 3.0 released

[jstarkey]

Zend Studio 3.0 and PHP 5 - Now Enterprise Ready

Ramat Gan, Israel, September 8, 2003- Growing adoption and legitimacy of Linuxand Apache within enterprise organizations is driving the proliferationof mission critical applications written in PHP. Apache, now with over63% server market share across all domains, and PHP, which accounts forroughly 26% of all domains on the Internet, are now a genuine optionfor enterprises deploying mission critical Web applications.

Zend, founded by the designers of the Zend Engine, the core of PHP, andthe leading provider of PHP productivity solutions, today announces therelease of Zend Studio 3.0. After a successful month-long beta period,Zend Studio 3.0 brings a feature-rich Integrated DevelopmentEnvironment (IDE) designed specifically for advanced professional Webdevelopers building mission critical applications in PHP, JavaScriptand HTML. Zend Studio provides the tools developers demand for PHPdevelopment and is already used by more than 18,000 developers incompanies such as Bausch & Lomb, Siemens, Lycos Germany, OutbackSteakhouse and Deutsche Telekom.

Zend Technologies has been contributing to legitimacy and proliferationof open source PHP since 1999 with initiatives such as the developmentof the Zend Engine 2, authoring of PHP 5, the JSR initiative with SunMicrosystems and most recently, the launch of the Studio 3.0. With thismarket knowledge and experience, Zend has recognized the enterpriseneed for sophisticated, PHP productivity tools. Zend Studio 3.0, nowwith support for PHP 5, significantly faster performance, expert leveldebugger and project management tools, allows enterprise developers towrite robust, bug free code, rapidly develop mission critical Webapplications and seamlessly deploy and maintain their PHP applications.

"The release of Zend Studio 3.0 now gives enterprises the support theyneed to adopt PHP for their mission critical, eBusiness applications,"said Zeev Suraski, co-designer of PHP and co-founder and CTO of ZendTechnologies. "With full support of PHP 5 including advanced editing,debugging and analysis of PHP applications, Zend Studio allowsenterprises to simplify the development and maintenance of theirapplications, improve the quality of their applications and shortentime to market. The upcoming release 5 is going to make PHP even moreattractive to big organizations, and strengthen its position in theenterprise world as the scripting language of choice for developing Webapplications. The PHP 5 release, scheduled for the end of 2003, meetsthe needs of the enterprise world, including a new powerful objectmodel and state of the art XML support."

"With integrated support for the much anticipated PHP 5 release, aswell as stronger XML integration, built-in Code Analyzer, and a host ofother excellent features, Zend Studio 3.0 puts the future of PHP atyour fingertips today - in a faster, easier to use interface," saidJason Halla, Web applications developer for The American Legion andmoderator of Devshed's PHP Forum. "If your company depends on PHP, yourdevelopers can depend on the Zend Studio."

Zend Studio 3.0, a major upgrade to the already well-received ZendStudio 2.x, enables professional developers to write robust, bug-freecode with advanced debugging tools including a remote debugger, debugURL and quick debug directly from their browser. The innovative CodeProfiler, which determines which parts of the application are slowingdown the project, and Code Analyzer, which analyzes static source codeand attempts to reconcile problematic code, give PHP developers thetools to maximize their code quickly and efficiently. Tools such asadvanced code completion, JavaScript and HTML support and customizablekey maps speed time to market and improve coding efficiency. Fullversion management and FTP integration, project and file inspectors andadvanced project management capabilities allow developers to seamlesslymaintain and deploy their PHP applications.

Pricing and Availability
Zend Studio starts at $195, with the Zend Studio Plus version availableat $249 which includes one year of product upgrades and support. ZendStudio supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms. Upgrade optionsare available for existing users. The product is available immediatelyatwww.zend.com.

About Zend Technologies Ltd.
Zend Technologies, a leading Web infrastructure softwarecompany, is the internationally recognized authority in PHP. Thecompany provides a complete platform that enables the rapidly growingmarket of PHP-enabled enterprises to Develop, Protect and Scale theirPHP applications. Zend's founders are the designers of PHP and the ZendEngine, on which all PHP sites and applications are run. The companyis an active leader in the PHP and open source communities, and plays acentral role in the explosive growth of PHP, which is now being used inover 9 million web sites worldwide. Founded in 1999, Zend Technologiesis a privately held, venture-backed firm, with management, marketingand R&D headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel. Zend's products areavailable atwww.zend.com,or by contacting a Zend representative by phone at 1-877-ZEND-PHP or byemail atsales@zend.com.

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[J-Vladimir]

Huh,
too many words and too little effect...
Zend Studio is still very slow and lazy.
Can't get it working with any php file exceeding 1k lines.

[jstarkey]

Originally posted by J-Vladimir
Huh,
too many words and too little effect...
Zend Studio is still very slow and lazy.
Can't get it working with any php file exceeding 1k lines.

I use it religiously now and it works great. I doubt I have too many files over 1000 lines though. I try to split them up.

It's slow on PHP B when I use the server in a project. Zend is taking a look at it to find out why. I think it has to do with searching the files for the project inspector. I'll post here when they figure it out.

[Wynder]

I got work to buy me a copy -- glad I didn't use my own cash though... wish they would've written it on something other java.... Too many idiosyncrocies on that platform -- quirky things:

alt+tab out and in has issues, trying to use backspace while holding shift doesn't work, code completion has some quirks, and various other things.

That being said, I do use it now as my primary editor -- the information resources are nice and the good stuff almost outweighs the bad.

[kangus]

I have a project that is 100,000 lines of code in 108 folders and 1010 files, I'm still working on getting Zend Studio to work. The main problem appears to be relative verses absolute file paths or it could be a buggy Java FTP client. I agree with the Java comment, I have yet to find an application that is written in Java and reliable, seems to be an oximoron. Nice language for school, it's 'Free' (unless of course you produce something that can be sold then Royolities apply). So far Zend has helped solve some $GLOBLE variable issues so the $$$ spent are/will be justified.

[weekender]

i use zend studio 3, and i hear you about the speed issues.

thing is, i don't use php at work (my boss is a microsh*te) and i don't have enough of my own cash, so my zend is personal edition (which the pro version reverts to after 30 days).

I do miss functions such as multi-file search and block indenting, and it is slow, but considering i didn't pay a penny for it, it's the best IDE out there for someone in my position by far.

[piersk]

I've started using it only recently after reading a really excellent review on it here.

[idgarad]

MY Zend flickers when running certain apps concurrently as if it was try to refresh itself. Very odd behavior. Works great I love the autocompete as I am very verbose in my variable naming

ie. $event_start_month versus $sEventM or something shorter.

[prog]

installing Zend Studio 3.0.0 Client successfully
While running Zend Development Environment,
I get a 'Fatal Application Error' box says:

This Application has Unexpectedly Quit
Invocation of this Java Application has caused an
ExceptionInInitializerError. This application will now exit. (LAX)

After pressing OK button, this box quits and nothing runs.
Do I have something wrong?

OS: Windows ME
RAM: 128MB
the web server is located in another machine

[Wynder]

It's a java application, so... try downloading the latest version of Java from java.sun.com -- I think ME might still be using Microsoft Virtual Machine... it might have issues.