Quick Start

Zend Technologies is happy to release an Eclipse based version of the traditional Zend Studio.

The following Quick Start page will help newcomers and (even) our veteran users familiarize themselves with this new version.

The Features covered in the Quick Start are:

Workbench

 

Creating a PHP Project

 

Creating a PHP File

 

PHP Debugging

 

Perspectives of Interest

 

Workbench

The Workbench is a window displaying perspectives, views and menu bars through which different operations can be performed.

Click here for more on how to customize your Workbench.

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Creating a PHP Project

A project is a group of files and resources, which will be displayed in a tree in the Navigator and PHP Explorer views.

 

 

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To create a new PHP project:

Go to the Menu Bar and select File | New | PHP Project.

-Or- In the PHP Explorer View, right-click and select New | PHP Project.

New Project Wizard Note:  

Leaving the 'Use Default' checkbox under the Project contents category selected will create a default library within the workspace, with the project name. Not using the default will allow you to add the contents to the directory of your choice, provided you have already created a directory before starting. (Recommended to prevent current project files from being stored with other project files).

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Creating a PHP File

 

 

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To create a new PHP file:

Go to the Menu Bar and select File | New | PHP File.

-Or- In PHP Explorer view, right-click the folder in which you would like to create your file and select New | PHP File

-Or- Click the New PHP File icon on the toolbar . This will create a file outside of a project.

 

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PHP Debugging

The Zend Debugger detects and diagnoses errors in PHP code situated on local or remote servers:

 

 

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To debug a PHP script situated on your workspace:

  1. Set breakpoints at the relevant locations in your script by double-clicking the marker bar to the left of the relevant line. A blue ball will appear to indicate that a breakpoint has been set.

  2. Go to the main menu and select Run | Open Debug Dialog -or- right-click the file in PHP Explorer view and select Debug As | Open Debug Dialog.

  3. To create a new configuration, double-click the 'PHP Script' category.

  1. Enter all relevant information and click Apply and Debug.

 

 

 

Instructions on how to complete a procedure

To debug a PHP web page situated on a server:

  1. Go to the main menu and select Run | Open Debug Dialog -or- right-click the file in PHP Explorer view and select Debug As | Open Debug Dialog.

  2. To create a new configuration, double-click the 'PHP Web Page' category.

  3. Enter the required information and click Apply and Debug.

 

Debugging Preferences can be configured from the Debug Preferences page, which can be accessed from Window | Preferences | PHP | Debug.

Click here for more on Debugging.

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Perspectives of Interest

To open a perspective go to Window | Open Perspective, select "Other" to view a full list of perspectives.

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Related Links

Related Links:

Using the Debugger