Concepts

Apigility is an API Builder, designed to simplify creating and maintaining useful, easy to consume, and well structured APIs.

Application Monitoring utilizes data collected by your server during application development and provides live notifications in Zend Studio for each Zend Server Event.

Breakpoints allow you to set places in the code at which the debugging process will pause.

Code Folding collapses or "folds" the display of a block of code. The editor will then display only the first line of code instead of the entire block.

Composer is a tool for PHP dependencies management. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install them in your project for you. Composer is not a package manager.

Zend Studio enables you to customize your working environment according to the specific requirements that your project entails.

The Zend Studio debugging function allows you to test your files and applications and detect errors in your code.

The Drag and Drop functionality allows you to click on a selected chunk of code and drop it anywhere in the editor.

Hovering over an element will cause a tooltip to appear with information about that element, containing information (description, package, parameters, etc.) contained in the element's relevant PHPdoc comment.

Enabling JavaScript Libraries in your project allows libraries to be referenced by the project and makes the elements within these resources available for operations such as Content Assist and Refactoring.

Zend Studio allows you to easily manage and install external PHP libraries used for running applications in your development environment.

The Mark Occurrences feature enables you to see where an element is referenced by simply clicking on the element in the editor.

Zend Studio comes bundled with the best-in-class tools and platforms for creating mobile applications.

Zend Studio's new project wizards make creating new projects an easy and simple task, enabling you to develop faster.

‘Override Indicators’ are markers that display special decoration icons to indicate methods that override or implement other methods from a super-type's class/interface.

Phar Integration will enable you to integrate with phar archives.

PHPDocs provides structured, easy-to-read documentation of all your php elements.

Zend Studio can integrate with PHP Manual sites in order to get the most up-to-date PHP information.

PHP Working Sets are groups of PHP resources which allow you to view or apply actions to a group of pre-defined elements.

The Zend Profiler displays a breakdown of the executed PHP code in order to detect bottlenecks in scripts by locating problematic sections of code.

The Refactoring feature in Zend Studio allows you to rename and move files and elements within those files, while maintaining the links between the items.

Zend Studio allows you to run the applications you are working on from the workbench. This allows you to run and test your applications during development.

Zend Studio's Support Tool optimizes your interaction with the Zend Support team by helping you create and send a more accurate picture of your Zend Studio working environment.

Tunneling provides a means of persistent connection between Zend Studio and a remote server situated behind a Firewall, NAT or in a private network.

Zend Studio's Update Manager allows for the easy installation of extra plug-ins, the updating of existing features and the easy updating of Zend Studio with the latest offerings from Zend.

Zend Framework is Zend's open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5.

Integrating Zend Studio with Zend Server allows you to benefit both from Zend Studio's debugging and profiling functionality and from Zend Server's Monitoring capabilities.