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 ?