Zend Studio 5.5.1 is the latest version of the famous PHP IDE which is not based on Eclipse. The next Zend Studio for Eclipse 6 has used the same name, but is a completely different software. Zend Technologies Ltd. has taken the open-source general purpose IDE and extended it to be suitable for PHP development. The main reason for the switch IMHO was that Eclipse is a well know, well supported IDE and Zend Technologies Ltd. can profit from many public extensions and improvements to Eclipse and can concentrate on the PHP support.
Zend Studio 5 has been almost the perfect IDE. Extremely fast (especially compared to Eclipse), relatively robust (crashes from time to time), but very well sewed. It had native (S)FTP support, more native then ZS4E. It had the debugger, profiler, code analyzer, CSV/SVN support - everything that PHP programmer ever needed.
ZS 5 is in many aspects superior to ZS4E and currently lacks some new features (PHP 5.3, Mercurial). Therefore we're kindly asking Zend Technologies Ltd. to release Zend Studio 5 source code to public. We are sure there are Java enthusiasts who will fix the stability issues and implement new features. The only reason Zend Technologies Ltd. has not done so already is because open-source ZS5+ may be a threat to their profits. Still we are sure that open-source product will only increase the popularity of the Zend Technologies Ltd. as a leading PHP company which will trigger increased profits in the long term.
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Eclipse/Netbeans just dosn't cut it. They crash (alot more than ZDE5.5), they're slow and cause type lag, they index indefinitely (e.g. on SFTP projects), they're useless if you don't create projects.. I could go on.
I've been testing them for ~4 years now and I keep getting dissapointed and go back to my ZDE 5.5.
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And if someone makes auto detection of charset, I'd even pay someones beer.
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I love that Zend 5.5 let you *easily* attach any directory from any old source to your project. Even with its bugs, Zend 6+ (8 is current) still do not live up to Zend 5.5 -- and if they were to Open Source it, it would become the greatest PHP IDE ever invented.
Yup -- Signed.
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