Zend Studio for Eclipse ("Neon") goes public

Zend is launching a beta of the next generation of the Zend Studio family - Zend Studio for Eclipse.

This beta release (code named "Neon") is based on proven Zend Studio technology and the Eclipse PHP Developers Tools (PDT) project. Zend Studio for Eclipse is the world's most powerful PHP IDE - providing professional PHP development capabilities combined with the Eclipse multi-language support and plug-in extension technology.

When Zend Studio for Eclipse is released, customers will get licenses for both the stand-alone Zend Studio and the Eclipse based product. Zend will also offer Zend Studio for Eclipse to all Zend Studio customers with a valid support subscription.

Zend Studio for Eclipse Features Include:

• Eclipse/PDT based solution:
• Community of millions of users and thousands of developers
• Access to hundreds of plug-ins
• Blended language support in one tool
• PHP syntax highlighting, code assist and inspection
• PHP basic debugging
• High value addition based on Zend Studio:
• Simplified, integrated, advanced debugging (local and remote/web server)
• Code Refactoring
• Profiling and Code Coverage
• PHPUnit Test support
• Enhanced Zend Framework integration
• WYSIWYG HTML Editing
• Zend Platform integration
• Migration tools from Zend Studio users
• BIRT integration
• Unified installer for one stop install
• And more…

• More information on Zend Studio For Eclipse
• Download the new Zend Studio Neon beta for free
• To submit feedback email: studio-feedback@zend.com
  

PHP IDE - Zend Studio Neon

The new version of famous PHP IDE Zend Studio 6.0 will be based on Eclipse platform. The beta version is available for testers. Now with the power of Zend Studio the PHP developers can enjoy all features of Eclipse platform. Thus the Zend Studio Neon can became your native IDE for PHP and for other languages as well. Based on eclipse it can provide the reach environment for development in Java, Python, JavaScript (AJAX) e.t.c...

There are few screenshots of Zend Studio Neon:

Pic1: Zend Studio Neon main window.
ZendFramework example project is opened:





Pic2: Zend Studio Neon debug perpective:





Pic3: Zend Studio Neon profile perspective:

Zend, IBM expand PHP agreement

Zend Technologies and IBM are expanding their partnership in the PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) application development space Wednesday, focusing on IBM's DB2 database.

Featured in the arrangement are enhanced IBM DB2 Express-C capabilities in IBM Zend Core for IBM, which is Zend's PHP offering. DB2 Express-C is IBM's hybrid relational-XML data server for accessing enterprise capabilities such as data replication, clustering and offsite disaster recovery.

Also included is new support for DB2 Connect technology to access i5/PS and z/OS DB2 data servers. DB2 Connect technology makes it easy to build PHP applications that leverage DB2 hosted on IBM System z and System i servers.

Additionally, users can leverage IBM System i Linux partitions and the System i attached BladeCenter and System x servers.

Users also get a single source of support for the integrated PHP and DB2 stack. Zend will provide this support.

Zend Core for IBM features a PHP-based application development and deployment stack that includes Apache, PHP, the Zend Framework and DB2 Express-C.

from infoworld.com

Web application requirements

• Object oriented style.
  
  
• MVC model
  http://framework.zend.com/
  
  
• Database abstraction layer (Model)
  
  
• Separation of Presentation (View) and Business Logic (Controllers),
  means using some templates engine (Smarty, Zend View)
  
  
• PHP coding standards
  http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.htmlPHP
  
  
• Comments in phpDocumentor format
  http://www.phpdoc.org
  
  
• API documentation
  http://framework.zend.com/apidoc/core/
  
  
• UML scheme of application (?)
  

• Database scheme
  

• Valid XHTML output

• SEO Friendly

Something else ?

Google Tricks

Enter just the word http for your search to find the top 1000 PageRanked sites.

Enter only www in your search to see how Google ranks the top 1,000 sites.

Manually type the following prefixes and note their utility:

# link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.
# related:url same as "what's related" on serps.
# site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.
# allinurl: shows only pages with all terms in the url.
# inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
# allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
# intitle: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. "intitle:seoforgoogle google" finds only pages with seoforgoogle in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
# cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.
# info:url will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.
# spell: will spell check your query and search for it.
# stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.
# filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. "-filetype:pdf" to remove Adobe PDF files.
# daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
# maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.
# phone: enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)
# site:www.somesite.net "+www.somesite.+net" - (tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)
# allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
# allinlinks: searches only within links, not text or title

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