Zend Studio has always been the preferred tool for many PHP developers, and it has had a particularly close relationship with Java. Zend Studio 5 was consistently based on Java Swing, but now, Zend Studio has directly switched to Eclipse. Below are its main features:
- Editor and file management functions
- Support for PHP4 and PHP5
- Syntax highlighting and code assistance
- Templates (PHP, PHPDoc, New File)
- Code folding (classes, functions, and PHP documentation)
- Real-time error detection
- Bookmarks
- Intelligent source code + current code jump support
- Automatic insertion (brackets, PHPDoc)
- Bracket matching
- Comment/uncomment PHP code
- PHP (project) browser
- Open resource (file/function)
- PHP manual integration
- Search for PHP elements
- File/project/PHP inspection (overview)
- Advanced code formatting (indentation, brackets, whitespace, and blank lines)
- Find and replace in files
- Tasks
- Project include paths
- Problem viewing
- Drag-and-drop or open files in the file browser
- Simple new file creation
- Header file code assistance