The aim of an integrated development environment (IDE) is to give you, the developer, support and help while building applications. This article demonstrates how to set up Zend Studio, a PHP IDE, in Linux. It also explains how to quickly set up Zend Serve

Before we begin, I assume that you have already installed any one of the following popular Linux distros— Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat, etc. I tried this on Fedora 16 with Apache for the Web server, MySnL as the database server, and PHP for server-side scripting (i.e., the LAMP stack). Since yRX FDQ fiQG PDQy DrWLFOHV RQ WhH 1HW DERXW FRQfigXrLQg /A03 on your system, I’m skipping this part.

As mentioned on Zend’s website, “Zend Studio is the only Integrated Development Environment (PHP IDE) available for professional developers, providing the capabilities needed to develop business applications.” So you get an editor to play ZLWh 3H3, ZLWh qXLFk fiOH PDQDgHPHQW, VPDrW LQWHOOL6HQVH, code refactoring and many other features, including PDQDgHPHQW RI C66 DQG -DYD6FrLSW fiOHV. 7hLV ZLOO WDkH yRX to the next level in PHP Web application development.