General

• OS support for: Windows, Linux and Mac platforms
• Ability to work with projects and standalone files
• Full encoding support: save, load and debug files with different encoding
• File system view integration includes all basic actions such as copy, cut & paste
• Advanced file-types mechanism
  • Group different extensions into one file type - 'PHP files' include: 'php', 'inc', and more
  • Group several file types into one group - 'Web Document' includes: 'PHP files' and 'HTML files'
  • Easily mask different file operations according to file type: syntax highlighting, find in files, file system view, and more
• Advanced Project Manager mechanism
• Printing capabilities for colored and formatted output with print margin visibility option
• Simple external browser integration
• Intuitive integration with Zend Encoder
• Ability to open files with external applications

User Interface

• Enable/disable default and OS Look and Feel
• Multi-language support
• Adjust window locations with drag and drop
• Adjust window alignment by pressing the corner buttons
• Supports floating windows
• Open and close every window with a single keystroke
• Quick hide and show for windows by pressing ESC and SHIFT ESC
• Customizable shortcuts

Editor

• Syntax highlighting for PHP, HTML, XML, CSS and JavaScript
• Customizable color and font schemes
• Switch between open editors with CTRL + TAB or CTRL + SHIFT + TAB
• Full PHP file indentation and smart indentation while typing
• Highlighting for: matching brackets / quotes / HTML tags
• Easily switch between wrap and unwrap text
• Quick access to recently opened files
• Comment / uncomment lines or blocks of code in HTML, PHP and JavaScript with a single keystroke
• Advanced editing actions:
  • Duplicate lines or blocks of code in a single keystroke without overriding the clipboard memory
  • Drag and Drop text
• Quick HTML tag insertion
• Clone active editor file in a new window, to view different parts of the same file
• Highlight and show PHP syntax error descriptions
• Customize line-ending style (\n or \r\n)
• Smart undo/redo mechanism
• Notification on deleted or externally modified files
• Advanced find and replace capabilities:
  • Search for simple text or expressions
  • Search in selected text
  • Search forward or backward
• Strip trailing spaces before saving
• Quick change font size in the editor using Ctrl + mouse scroll
• Automatic closure of PHP quotes, back quotes, double quotes, parentheses and square brackets
• Smart deletion support
• Automatic closure of HTML tags after '>'
• Automatic indentation and insertion of PHP curly brackets
• Mark and add comments to lines of text using the bookmarks utility
• Close all open editors except one using the right-click menu

Code Completion

• Fully customizable
• Automatic code completion while typing
• PHP Code Completion:
  • Switch between PHP 4 and PHP 5 code completion integration
  • Suggests and completes classes, functions, variables, constants and keywords
  • Shows a short description and adds a link to the PHP manual for PHP language functions
  • Detailed PHPDoc pop-up window
  • Shows function signatures while calling functions
  • Adjust the default PHP code completion (function, classes, etc.) by changing the PHP functions files
  • Code Completion for nested functions
  • Code Completion for function return values (using PHPDoc support)
  • Provide the appropriate completion for functions and variables according to their access level

Code Folding

• Easily fold classes, functions and non-PHP code
• Automatically fold or collapse code as defined in the Preferences
• Indication bar for folding existence
• Hovering over collapsed fold opens a window with the fold content
• Hovering over fold indication bar shows fold scope

PHPDocumentor Support

• Syntax highlighting for PHPDoc comments
• Code Completion for PHPDoc tags and variables in PHPDoc comments
• Enhanced and detailed PHPDoc pop-up window for Code Completion
• Add PHPDoc comments ('Add Description' action) to various code elements
• Generate professional documentation directly from Zend Studio using PHPDocumentor utility
  • Advanced and convenient internal wizard for creating PHP documentation
• Automatic creation of indented PHPDoc blocks after typing '/**' and pressing Enter  
   

Debugger

• Powerful debugger with intuitive interface
• Supports all basic debug actions: Go, Run, Step Over, Step Into, Step Out, Run to Cursor
• Easily view variables (Globals and Locals) and expressions value in Variables and Watches view
• Assign new values to variables during debug session
• Advanced Breakpoint capabilities including conditional breakpoints
• View the PHP executable stack in the Stack view during debug session
• Easily add watches by dragging text from the editor
• View PHP output buffer data while debugging
• View debug output in the Debug Output view or open in the internal browser
• Tool tips indicate values of variables or selected text
• SSL connection support
• Internal debugger:
  • Bundled with the Zend Studio Client package
  • Includes debuggers for PHP 4 and PHP 5
• Remote debugger:
  • Uses the Zend Studio Server installation
  • Uses the Zend Studio Server installation
  • Supports debugging for more than one page
  • The source files used during debug sessions can be taken from the server or from local copy if available
  • Initialize debug sessions directly from your browser using the Zend Browser Toolbar

Profiler

• Powerful remote profiler with intuitive interface (uses the Zend Studio Server)
• View general query information
• Functions calls count, own time and total time
• Easily switch between table and diagram view of functions profiler
• Trace functions by execution order or own time
• Jump to the line code by clicking on the function name
• Initialize profiler directly from your browser using the Zend Toolbar

PHP Code Analysis

• Highlight and show a description of PHP syntax errors while typing
• Inspectors:
  • View a list of all classes, functions, variables and constants in open files and the open project in the File and Project inspectors
  • View class hierarchy and class relations (extends, implements)
  • Link with Editor - select an entity according to the editor's scope
  • Sort entities by original order or alphabetically
  • Group and ungroup entities by constants, include files, classes, functions and WSDL files
  • Save File Inspector tree structure (expanded nodes) when switching between files in the Editor
• Check for missing included files in the entire project
• Code Analyzer Tool:
  • Analyze files from the editor or file system
  • List of analyzer results includes detailed explanation for each warning
  • Supports PHP 4 and PHP 5

• Wizard generates WSDL files from PHP code (tools -> WSDL Generator)
  • Saves previous configuration for quick WSDL generation
• Parsing WSDL files used by SOAP client
  • Inspector view of WSDL classes and functions
  • SOAP client object Code Completion includes all WSDL defined functions
  • Parsing WSDL documentation and showing it as a description for WSDL functions in inspectors and code completion
  • Support for complex types data parsing and completion

SQL Support

• Supports MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2 and Cloudscape, Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite and PostgreSQL
• Easy to use Connection Setup Dialog for connecting to SQL servers or flat-file databases, like SQLite
• Visual Display for databases, schemas, tables, fields, stored procedures and indexes in an SQL explorer tree
• Tabular results display area that can display multiple results
• Metadata viewing for each of the server's elements
• Table data viewing and editing
• Query Editor for user-specified queries
• Messages Area for viewing messages from the connected servers
• Maintains a history of queries that persist across Zend Studio runs
• Textual, Hexadecimal and Image viewer for viewing BLOBs and CLOBs
• Paging mechanism for large result sets
• Ability to kill server processes
• Syntax Highlighting, supporting ANSI SQL92 has been enriched with many other extensions
• SQL Tree drag & drop support for Users, Databases, Schemas, Tables and Fields
• Customizable SQL explorer behavior, as well as Date formatting, automatic use of LIMIT keyword and more

CVS Integration

• Execute CVS commands through the Project View, Editor or Menu
• No need for configuration when sources are associated with CVS repository
• Easily checkout files
• Support all basic CVS commands
• Automatic pop-up login window before executing CVS commands, if login is needed
• Supports the CVS_RSH environment variable
• Support CVS proxy connection
• Diff viewer - A graphical diff tool, which enables to view changes from local files to any revision in the repository

Subversion Integration

• Supports all common subversion actions: Update, Commit, Add, Delete, Revert, Resolve, Status, Diff, Log, Checkout
• Integrates with Project files
• Customize subversion windows from Preferences

FTP Advanced Integration

• Supports FTP, SFTP and FTPS protocols
• Support for FTP server alias names
• Deep integration in all aspects of Zend Studio
• FTP connectivity treated as a regular file system with files inside
• File System operations such as copy, paste, delete, create new file/folder and drag and drop files into or from local file system