Zend Studio for Eclipse is just around the corner. Very soon we are planning to release the product after few beta cycles were we got thousands of feedbacks.
We’ve been reading every feedback, tried to reproduce the bugs, analyze the feature request and come up with a better product based on that.
Zend Studio for Eclipse introduce a new level of features which makes the development experience smoother and shorter. Some of the features are:
- Refactoring - Some people call it smart Find and Replace in files, others familiar with it from Java development. What i’m sure that this feature is a must when you want to rename a PHP element and you want to do it smartly with minimum side effects.
- Code Generation - No doubt that writing getters and setters for your PHP Class variables is important but a boring and time consuming task. What would you say if Zend Studio for Eclipse would do that for you in just 3 clicks (Right click, Source -> Generate Getters and Setters and Finish). If you’re picky in what you want to generate it might take 3 more seconds. Very efficient. You can generate also PHP Class or Interface skeleton, Zend Framework Controllers and more.
- PHPUnit Testing - We all heard about Test Driven Development but we are not sure how to implement it. On the other hand we might have a web application and we want to test its units to make sure it doesn’t break every time we change something. PHPUnit Testing in Zend Studio for Eclipse provides an easy way to create new Test Cases, Test Suites, run tests and get a visual summary of a the test results including an option to export it to HTML or XML.
There are great amount of new features available in the new release of Zend Studio for Eclipse which will make you a happy and efficient PHP developer.
Stay tuned!
Yossi Leon
