Thursday, 15 February 2007

Zend Studio 5.5 for i5/OS Released

Cal Evans, in a post over Devzone initiates you about the latest version of Zend’s flagship IDE, Zend 5.5 for PHP development, released for i5/OS. He says Zend Studio 5.5 is an industry leading PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for professional developers, which includes all the development components necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle. Through a set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization, database tools and testing Zend Studio speeds development cycles and simplifies complex projects. Zend Studio Professional for i5/OS is enhanced to work with integration toolkit provided with Zend Core on i5/OS.

He lists out the following enhancements that Zend Studio 5.5 boasts of:

• Instant online debugging and error fixing against Zend Core for i5/OS
• New supports PHP 5.2
• New customizable and smart context sensitive templates for i5 Toolkit functions
• New support MySQL on i5/OS
• New embedded Java code completion
• New source control support
• New Zend Framework Integration
• New remote WSDL file support
• New anti-aliasing support
• Trouble-shooting with PHP Intelligence
• Works exclusively with Zend Core for i5/OS