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.

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.

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.

On Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 at 9:00 am PDT / 12:00 pm EDT / 4:00 pm GMT, Yossi Leon and Kent Mitchel (both Zenders) will be presenting a Webinar on PHP Development Tools project.