Question: Zend Studio?

[smilepak]

How many people here uses Zend Studio?

I am wondering would it be worth it to purchase this particular application. I am very new to PHP and been reading about it on the net.

Is it similar to Visual Studio from Microsoft? Or is it more similar to Jbuilder by Borland?

Do the place where I host my website require to have Zend Engine running? I am currently hosting at siteturn.com and I doubt the have it. Just the basic PHP and mySQL support

Any information much appreciated

Thanks!!!
KN

[starrk]

I personally use PHPED by Nusphere and rather happy with it. It also a PHP IDE and it's more feature-rich in some aspects. E.g. it has a db client, i.e. you can connect to mysql or postgresql db from the IDE. Besides, it's very fast and stable. Download here http://ww1.nusphere.com/web/ or read about features here http://www.nusphere.com/news/article..._infoworld.pdf

I don't know if it's similar any other programs. Pehaps, Delphi.

PHP4 and PHP5 already contain Zend Engine.

[smilepak]

It looks like a very nice applications (IDE). I will have to look into it. I recently been trying Dreamweaver MX 2004 and that seems pretty nice too

[bretticus]

I actually have been using Zend Studio for awhile. I use it for the "intellisense" or whatever ZS calls it ;-) especially for my own classes, makes it nice to use my own "widgets" when I'm coding. The remote debugging feature is cool I'm sure (just a little squeamish about firing it up on my company's production server if ya know what I mean.)

There are a few annoying traits though. For example, I hate the "explorer" window (there I go again with the windows terminology) that seems to lag a bit on the remote end but more especially has this "tease" effect of flickering like you're there only to see your old menu before the drill-downed menu pops up (hard to explain.) I also hate the search and replace. Until it's refined better I would not recommend paying the $300! they're asking (or whatever is is.)

I'll have to checkout Nusphere.

Here are some reviews

[smilepak]

I think am starting to like dreamweaver mx2004. I've used it all weekend and found it to be a great tool.

The fact it does have a code view similar to what ZEND Studio IDE code view or you could switch over to design view similar to NetObject Fusion / Frontpage.

[bretticus]

Yeah MX at least has code complete.