Aug 23

Zend Developer Studio Overview #16

If you are familiar with Eclipse development IDE, then you can learn Zend Developer Studio pretty easily. If you are familiar with programming concepts in general and especially in PHP, then you may need 1-3 days to be good at Zend Developer Studio. You really don’t need 20 years of experience to be able to work effectively with Zend Developer Studio. First, know what are the topics to learn, then learn one by one. It will be mostly common sense.

Concepts to learn in Zend Developer Studio

  • View: Any sub-window to give you information on a topic (application development). Two types: PHP, Explorer view, Outline View
  • Perspective: A collection of similar views to accomplish a specific task
  • Outline View: Tree view of an entity. open/selected entity
  • Working Sets: Collection of files or open projects that you can bind together and give a name
  • Code Editor: Learn the code editor, try to use code completion features, navigation features
  • Learn to create project:
  • Learn different ways and features of creating projects such as:
    • Projects Wizard
    • Zend Framework Project
    • Multiproject Support
    • Setting Up Working Sets
    • Importing Projects
    • Exporting Projects
    • Creating New Files
    • Using Link with Editor
    • Accessing Remote Files
  • Learn to write code under MVC model in Zend framework
  • Learn to use Zend libraries
  • Learn to use classes provided by Zend for MVC type of project development
  • You may want to learn – how to use Zend provided features to access google data, and Zend features for emailing
  • Learn Zend_PDF for PDF file creation and handling, Zend_Service for web-service based application development, Zend_Gdata for google services, Zend_Mail for mailing, Zend_Controller for MVC application development, Zend_Db for database operations, Zend_Acl for access control
  • Learn Zend Framework project structure, folder structure, and how to modify settings [database settings for example]
  • Learn how to update eclipse/zend features from the menu options. Learn how to install new eclipse/zend components.
  • Learn how to install third party plug-ins to eclipse
  • Learn how to install libraries
  • Zend studio also has an interface where you can easily design your web-pages. You have to change your perspective to this editor view (PHP/HTML WYSIWYG).
  • Learn to use a version control software with Zend studio. You may want to use CVSNT (client for CVS). You also need a Version Control Server.
  • You will get version control options under Window->preferences menu option.
  • You can set configuration for files, how they will be handled under version control
  • You also need to learn debugging. How to set debugging parameters (window->preferences). Learn how to debug locally and remotely.
  • Learn how to use debug perspective. How to use different debugging concepts such as step into, step over, run to cursor, breakpoint, watch variables and similar
  • Learn Code Analyzer, Refactoring, and SQL Integration

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