Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide (Developer's Library)
- Media: Book (Paperback, 216 pages)
- ISBN: 0672329409
- Publisher: Sams
- Release Date: Mar 30, 2008
Product Description
The definitive, comprehensive guide to Zend Studio for Eclipse
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 phparchitect (www.phparch.com), a regular speaker at North American and international computer conferences, and coauthor of Programming PHP.
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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.
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Category:Â Web Development/PHP
Covers:Â Zend Studio for Eclipse
User Level: Intermediate—Advanced
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$39.99 USA / $43.99 CAN / ÂŁ28.99 Net UK
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Good only if you want an intro to Zend Studio for Eclipse.
The back cover annoints this book "The definitive, comprehensive guide to Zend Studio for Eclipse." That's a bit of a stretch. It'd be more accurate to say this book is an intro to Zend Studio for Eclipse and a few related topics. I don't regret buying it because it was helpful to me. It did what I needed it to do, which was get my jumpstarted on my transition from Zend Studio IDE to Zend Studio for Eclipse, but if you're looking for a real reference that you can study and re-use, save your money. This book is basic and stops where a real reference book would have started from.
By the way, the book is considerably shorter than the 216 pages that's listed. It's approximately 200 pages including blank pages and the index. Cut out the blanks and the index and it'll weigh in at a slim 174 pages.
Largely a reiteration of the included/free Zend Studio for Eclipse User Guide
I would have given this book at least two stars for including a sample app (which the Zend user guide does not), but the app doesn't work! Even after correcting several typos in the sample app's code, you still get a fatal error (which I suspect has to do with a missing include path, but I shouldn't have to troubleshoot book code).
