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Zend Studio - The Leading PHP IDE

Develop Web and Mobile Apps Faster With Zend Studio

- Maximize development productivity
- Build apps using your favorite framework
- Develop in the Cloud
- Create web-based mobile applications with ease

Maximize development productivity

Zend Studio gives professional PHP developers the tools to write and maintain PHP code faster, solve problems more quickly, develop in the cloud and improve team collaboration.

- Content assistance lets you immediately understand which methods or variables are currently in scope and discover APIs for new frameworks and libraries
- Templates for new classes, traits, etc. take care of basic plumbing for you
- Real-time validation and analysis helps you write top-quality code
- Integrated PHPUnit enhances test driven development
- Source control integration helps you work smoothly with SVN, CVS, Git, and GitHub
- Debugging and profiling speeds up troubleshooting, bug-fixing and optimizes performance significantly

Use the tools you love

Whether you’re an experienced PHP developer or just getting started, with Zend Studio you can fully explore the benefits of popular tools in the PHP ecosystem:

Composer - Dependency management made easy

Looking to use your favorite features from different PHP frameworks in one project but worried about the complexity of managing dependencies? By integrating Composer, Zend Studio lets you easily add, remove, update and browse project dependencies as well as effortlessly manage repositories. You can declare your dependencies within a configuration file, and then run a single command to immediately pull them into your project.

PHPUnit - Build reliable and bug free PHP projects

The sooner you detect your code mistakes, the quicker you can fix them. Zend Studio has seamless integration with the PHPUnit library, making tests easy to learn, write, read and execute. Don’t write test infrastructure from scratch - just write the unique parts and reuse the plumbing.

PHPDocumentor 2 - Create comprehensive code documentation effortlessly

If you've ever tried to read code written by someone else - or even your own old code - you know how difficult it can be to understand its logic. Don’t be “that guy”: document your code! With PHPDocumentor integrated, Zend Studio makes it easier to generate user-friendly documentation from start to end. Easily document code blocks using DocBlocks and also define, select and switch between different configuration profiles.
Build apps using your favorite framework
Whichever framework you choose, Zend Studio will enhance your productivity: from fetching dependencies, learning new APIs, coding and unit testing to documentation and deployment.

Zend Framework users can benefit from extra features like automated creation of modules, view helpers and controllers and enhanced content assist for services and variables

Creating a ZF2 project
Develop in the Cloud
Zend Studio allows you to seamlessly deploy code in the cloud using a Zend Server runtime environment designed for developers. Why do that? You'll get a certified and tested PHP stack, app monitoring and advanced debugging, performance tuning, and more.

Zend Developer Cloud: this free cloud-based PHP stack based on Zend Server is ideal for team collaboration and is agnostic about the production environment.

You can also deploy similarly onto any on-premise using Zend Server.
Create web-based mobile applications with ease
Designed to meet the requirements of diverse platforms, Zend Studio is integrated with Apache Cordova - a platform that enables building and packaging Web mobile applications for all the major mobile platforms, using the popular web technologies you already know: HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Zend Studio is also equipped with a visual drag-and-drop editor for quick UI prototyping.