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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780672329401
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0672329409
Label: Sams
Manufacturer: Sams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: March 30, 2008
Publisher: Sams
Studio: Sams
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The definitive, comprehensive guide to Zend Studio for Eclipse Zend Studio for Eclipse gives millions of PHP/LAMP developers world-class tools for building state-of-the-art web applications. Now, here's a definitive guide to making the most of this breakthrough development environment. Zend Certified Engineer Peter MacIntyre and expert PHP developer Ian Morse show how to use Zend Studio for Eclipse to improve productivity, effectiveness, and code quality throughout your entire project lifecycle. You'll start with a product tour that introduces the core techniques and terminology you'll use in all your projects--including views, perspectives, outlines, and much more. You'll discover how to quickly use preferences to customize Zend Studio for Eclipse to your unique needs. Next, MacIntyre and Morse offer detailed, practical insights into every key aspect of working with Zend Studio: the code editor, PHP perspective views, Code Gallery, Code Analyzer, refactoring, SQL integration, unit testing with PHPUnit, debugging, version control, WYSIWYG design, and much more.You'll learn how to use the powerful integrated tools Zend provides, as well as those offered by the thriving worldwide Eclipse ecosystem. This book is an indispensable resource for every developer who wants to master Zend Studio for Eclipse: programmers already familiar with PHP and LAMP and users of other Eclipse-based IDEs who want to leverage their skills to create powerful PHP-based web applications. Peter MacIntyre is a Zend Certified Engineer with more than 18 years of experience in software development. He is a past contributing editor and author of php|architect (www.phparch.com), a regular speaker at North American and international computer conferences, and coauthor of Programming PHP. Ian Morse has participated in software projects of all sizes in various industries. His recent assignments include working on the new national website for the leading Canadianpizza restaurant, Pizza Delight. ON THE WEB: Download all examples and source code presented in this book from informit.com/title/9780672329401 Category: Web Development/PHP Covers: Zend Studio for Eclipse User Level: Intermediate--Advanced $39.99 USA / $43.99 CAN / GBP28.99 Net UK
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I'm new to PHP and new to Zend Studio, so I should be the perfect audience for this book. But its content is sooo thin, so lacking in any true help, that it deserves just one star. Zend Studio is a very broad product, it covers a lot of ground. You could easily imagine a 500 page book on it. But in this much thinner book, the authors briefly touch on the major topics saying at a very high level what they're for, telling you where to find it the menu and if there's a main dialog, showing a picture of that with a sketchy description of the main options. But they *don't* tell you anything that you can't easily find for yourself, they don't tell you how to get important project tasks done (pointing you to a dialog isn't sufficient), they don't cover any common troubleshooting. In short, they state what's right in front of your nose and leave it at that.
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Zend Studio for Eclipse, Developer's Guide from Addison-Wesley Pearson Education is a guide to Zend Studio for Eclipse (ZSE) for intermediate to advanced developers.
The book has 18 chapters, with the first 16 covering the different views and preference settings for each specific task. The first 5 chapters are explaining basically the layout of the Eclipse working environment, with a focus on how to modify these views for your own benefit. The last 2 chapters are devoted to working out an example application using ZSE with Zend Framework.
Personal opinion
This book is in my opinion a beginner's guide into using ZSE, aiming at PHP developers that have a knowledge of general concepts like versioning, debugging and refactoring. I personally was hoping to see advanced settings to tune the IDE into a powerful developer's tool, but it was merely a basic explanation with the correct terminology for a product that I've been using well over two years ... Read More
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Although I generally tend to "lurk" and read reviews rather than write them, I felt compelled to write one for this Zend Studio for Eclipse book.
I am a professional PHP programmer, and have been a Zend Studio 5.x user for two years. I knew every nook and cranny of Zend Studio 5.x. I had only praise for the product.
When Zend released Zend Studio for Eclipse, I switched over to it. All of a sudden I felt incompetent. I literally couldn't figure out how to do anything, it was so different than what I had gotten used to in v5.x.
The Zend manuals didn't help, there was too much background about eclipse to know in order to do the most basic things. As good as eclipse is, it is not the most intuitive piece of software.
So, try as I did, I just couldn't get anything working with ZS4E, even with the Zend manuals.
Frustrated, I went back to 5.x, in the hope that the zend documentation would eventually improve. I spent several months back ... Read More
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Nice book, that helps me speed up PHP developing in Zend Studio for Eclipse.
Good introduction into Eclipse IDE and advanced PHP development topics like debugging or unit testing.
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I cannot recommend this book to any target audience.
For experienced developers the book lacks any detailed information on how (for example) to get remote debugging working or to integrate any version control software. The sparse overviews provided have nothing you won't already know if you've ever used any IDE.
For beginners the book is rife with the kind of errors (the text does not agree with the sample code or images) that will drive them crazy.
The writing is clumsy and full of grammatical and spelling errors. The actual information doesn't go at all beyond what you can get by simply browsing the help files you got with Zend Studio for Eclipse.
Other than being able to read this away from the computer (not the most effective way to learn an IDE) there's no value to this book.
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