Eclipse Helios (3.6) and Zend Studio 7.1 (and above) include a new version of Eclipse PDT, labeled 2.2. This new release uses a new repository for storing code reference information. With these simple tips you can significantly improve the performance of this repository which will speed up code completion, searching for definitions, type hierarchy views and more.

Debugging is an invaluable part of software development. I find it very useful in a variety of situations, for instance when I want to understand how a routine works or I need to get rid of a bug that is not exactly easy to fix just by reading the code.

My main goal in this post is to show you how to set your debugging environment with Eclipse PDT and Xdebug.

nWire for PHP was released about 6 months ago and it is already an indispensable tool for many professional PHP developers. nWire adds PHP code analysis and exploration capabilities to Eclipse PDT and Zend Studio. The new release improves one major area: performance. The results are radical.

From Mihai Corlan’s blog:

bq. As your projects grow in size and more people get involved you’ll find yourself fixing more and more bugs. When this happens, one of the best friends a developer has is the debugger. In this paper, I’ll talk about some of the workflows and tools you can use to debug Flex and PHP projects.

bq. If you want to try the steps outlined here for yourself, you’ll need Flash Builder 4, a PHP and MySQL server (MAMP or WAMP will do just fine), Eclipse PDT, and XDebug.

Ever got lost in a sea of code, overwhelmed by the complexity of your application? Good news, there’s an app for that!

Visualize, navigate and search PHP code with nWire for PHP, a plugin for Eclipse PDT and Zend Studio 7. nWire provides innovative code analysis for large scale and enterprise PHP applications, enabling significant development cost reduction.

The folks behind the Eclipse PDT IDE have been working hard to get PHP 5.3 support built into the editor. They are getting very close to the goal, but could use some help from the community in writing some tests.

Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) 2.0 is now available from the Eclipse.org download site and from the Zend/PDT Community site (includes Eclipse PDT and Zend Debugger which enables users to perform local and remote debugging). The Eclipse PDT team would like to thank everyone who made this release possible. As always, our Eclipse PDT community has provided countless new features, bug fixes, documentation, etc. We’d also like to thank the Eclipse Dynamic Languages Toolkit team for cooperating and helping us with the new infrastructure.

It’s the holidays, so what better time to kick back and start learning about PHP and Flex? And to get you started, here’s a recent article by Richard Bates that demonstrates just how easy it is to create PHP/Flex applications using the integrated features of Zend Studio for Eclipse and the Flex Builder 3 Eclipse Plug-in.

Roy Ganor has blogged about the integration between Zend Framework and Dojo. Take a look at the screencast, which demonstrates how these two toolkits can be used to quickly build a flexible and standards-compliant Web application. And if you're a Zend Studio for Eclipse user, the screencast also includes a neat overview of Zend Studio support for Dojo, including Dojo code widgets and themes, code assist and code navigation.

Welcome to the fourth installment in our five-part series of xdebug articles on the Zend DevZone. This week, we will explore debugging PHP code with xdebug, the swiss army knife for PHP developers.
In this article, we assume that you have xdebug installed on your system. If you haven’t, the first article of the series explains how to install and configure xdebug.