Creating Projects and Files

The purpose of this tutorial is to guide you through the steps involved in creating PHP Projects and files.

Creating a PHP Project

To create a new PHP Project:

Go to File Menu and select New | PHP Project.
-Or- In PHP Explorer view, right-click and select New | PHP Project.
The New Project wizard will open.
Enter a name for your new project into the Project Name field.
Click Finish to complete the creation of your project.

The new project will be listed in PHP Explorer view.

Creating a PHP File

Creating a PHP file within Zend Studio will automatically add PHP tags to the script, and allow you to fully utilize Zend Studio's PHP functionality.

To create a new PHP file within a project:

In PHP Explorer view, right-click your project and select New | PHP File -or- select your project and go to File Menu | New | PHP File.
Enter the File Name and click Finish.
An editor window will appear with the following basic PHP code:
Add your code to the new file.
Save the file by clicking the Save button on the toolbar.
To complete your project, create more PHP files by repeating steps 1-7.

To create a new PHP file outside of a project:

Click the new Easy PHP File icon on the toolbar .
An editor window will appear with the following basic PHP code:
Add your code to the new file.
Save the file by clicking the Save button on the toolbar.
To complete your project, create more PHP files by repeating steps 1-7.

Once you have created all your files, you can edit , debug, profile, test and monitor them. After taking all the necessary steps in order to obtain a server, you will be ready to deploy the project to the live server on which it will be running.

For more information on methods of deploying and synchronizing information with a remote server see: Working with Remote Server SupportWorking with Remote Server.