Zend Studio

Zend Studio is the only Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed for professional developers that encompasses all the development components necessary for the full PHP application lifecycle.

Through a comprehensive set of editing, debugging, analysis, optimization, database tools and testing Zend Studio 5 speeds development cycles and simplifies complex projects.

To reflect varying developers' needs, Zend Studio comes in two editions: Professional and Standard

Zend Studio now includes a free developer license for Zend Platform allowing you to increase the reliability and maximize the performance of your application before deployment.

New or Improved

• PHP 7.1:
• Nullable types
• Void return type
• Iterable pseudo-type
• Class constant visibility modifer
• Catching multiple exception types
• Square bracket syntax for array destructuring assignment
• Allow specifying keys in list()
• Default PHP interpreter changed to PHP 7.1
• PHP 7.1 Built-in executables with Zend Debugger
• PHP performance: The speed of semantic analysis checks are improved by another 30%
• Improved Composer support:
• Wizard for creating new PHP project from existing Composer package on Packagist
• Renovated Composer editor
• Composer editor now embeds JSON editor with intellisense features
• Renovated JavaScript support:
• New ES6 capable JS Parser
• Bower and NPM integration
• Grunt and Gulp integration
• Chromium V8 debugger
• New Node.js support
• Support for HiDPI displays
• Automatic scaling of the GUI according to the DPI settings of the OS
• Best experience achieved at 200% DPI scaling
• Other improvements and fixes:
• Eclipse Platform updated to version 4.6.3 Neon.3
• Word wrap in all text editors
• Built-in shortcuts to zoom in text editors
• Automatic save of dirty editors
• Full screen mode
• New Import Project wizard
• Full list of improvements: https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.6/platform.php
• Eclipse PDT updated to version 4.3:
• New in 4.1: https://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/NewIn41
• New in 4.3: https://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/NewIn43
• EGit updated to version 4.6:
• New in 4.4: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/4.4
• New in 4.5: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/4.5
• New in 4.6: https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.egit/releases/4.6
• Apigility updated to version 1.4
• JSON editor with intellisense features
• Bundled JRE is updated as part of the Zend Studio update process

Discontinued

• The mobile application development support is discontinued.
• ZF1 support is partially discontinued due to ZF1 end-of-life. Wizards for new ZF1 projects are removed. The IDE is still useful for existing ZF1 projects.
• The FontSize extra features is discontinued in favor of the built-in shortcuts to zoom in text editors.