Tips and Tricks of coding with Zend Studio for Eclipse – Part 2

Join Peter MacIntyre for a special webinar on ‘Tips and Tricks coding with Zend Studio for Eclipse – Part 2′. The participants can greatly benefit from this webinar by learning the key Zend concepts & features including Views, Perspectives and basic area of coding environment.

Zend Studio for Eclipse is the premier coding environment for PHP. With multiple integration points, features, and tools the modern PHP developer needs to know how to use this product for efficient coding. In this webinar Peter will cover the basic areas of the coding environment, spending most of the time on the PHP Perspective.

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Monday, June 27, 2011 at 2 PM BST
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 12:30pm EST
Duration: 1 hour

What You Will Learn?

In the second part of webinar, Peter will cover the following topics:

1. PHPDoc tag entries
2. Connecting dependent projects (Configuring projects)
3. Function definitions in content assist
4. Using the Properties view to full effect
5. Using PHPDoc tags for documentation
6. PHP Code Gallery
7. Working Sets

More Preferences settings:

•    Key Mapping
•    Code Analyzer
•    Code Assist settings
•    Cursor Hovering feature
•    Settings in the Tasks view
•    Code Templates

About Peter MacIntyre:
Peter MacIntyre has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry, primarily in the area of software development. He is certified by ZEND Corporation on PHP 4.x and has contributed writing material for Using Visual Objects (Que Corp.), Using PowerBuilder 5 (Que Corp.), ASP.NET Bible (Wiley Pub.), and Web Warrior Survey on Web Development Languages (Course Technology). Most recently he has co-authored the Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer’s Guide – Addison-Wesley.

Peter is a PHP Programmer, author, consultant and trainer and lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is Senior Solutions Consultant with Zend Center of Excellence at OSSCube.

About OSSCube:
OSSCube is proud to be consistently rated as one of the best PHP Solutions companies in the world. Simply speaking..“If Its PHP we do it Best !”. OSSCube is also the world’s first Zend Center of Excellence, housing best of breed PHP expertise and development practices, which has established us as a “preferred partner” for Outsourced Product Development engagements. Our partnerships with leading open source technology/product provider including Acquia (Drupal), SugarCRM (Gold Partner),  and EnterpriseDB (Global SI Partner) empower us to deliver innovative, on time and cost effective open source solutions to business globally through our delivery centers in USA, UK and India. Learn more at php.osscube.com

Tips and Tricks coding with Zend Studio for Eclipse – Part 1

Join Peter MacIntyre for a special webinar on ‘Tips and Tricks coding with Zend Studio for Eclipse – Part 1’. The participants can greatly benefit from this webinar by learning the key Zend concepts & features including Views, Perspectives and basic area of coding environment.

Zend Studio for Eclipse is the premier coding environment for PHP. With multiple integration points, features, and tools the modern PHP developer needs to know how to use this product for efficient coding. In this webinar Peter will cover the basic areas of the coding environment, spending most of the time on the PHP Perspective.

Register Now by Clicking at the link below:
Mon, Jun 6, 2011 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM BST
Mon, Jun 6, 2011 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT

Duration: 1 hour

What You Will Learn?

In this practical session, Peter will cover the following topics:

1. PHP Perspective – what is it, how to customize the views
2. Making the coding environment your own
3. Syntax coloring – adjusting the options to your own preferences
4. Code folding, Code formatting, Project link to Editor
5. The Marker Bar – what it shows you
6. The Problems view
7. The Tasks view
8. The outline View – very valuable in OOP programming

About Peter MacIntyre:
Peter MacIntyre has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry, primarily in the area of software development. He is Zend Certified Engineer and has contributed writing material for Using Visual Objects (Que Corp.), Using PowerBuilder 5 (Que Corp.), ASP.NET Bible (Wiley Pub.), and Web Warrior Survey on Web Development Languages (Course Technology). Most recently he has co-authored the Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer’s Guide – Addison-Wesley.

Peter is a PHP Programmer, author, consultant and trainer and lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is Senior Solutions Consultant with Zend Center of Excellence at OSSCube.

About OSSCube:
OSSCube is proud to be consistently rated as one of the best PHP Solutions companies in the world. Simply speaking..“If Its PHP we do it Best !”. OSSCube is also the world’s first Zend Center of Excellence, housing best of breed PHP expertise and development practices, which has established us as a “preferred partner” for Outsourced Product Development engagements. Our partnerships with leading open source technology/product provider including Acquia (Drupal), SugarCRM (Gold Partner),  and EnterpriseDB (Global SI Partner) empower us to deliver innovative, on time and cost effective open source solutions to business globally through our delivery centers in USA, UK and India. Learn more at php.osscube.com

Getting started with Zend Studio for Eclipse: What can we do with views and perspectives.

In my last blog on Zend Studio for Eclipse, I introduced you to the concept of Views and what they were in basic terms. We also looked at Workspaces and talked about the general appearance of the IDE. This time around, we will look more closely at what we can do with these views and perspectives.

To recap: A view is a tabbed interface area that Zend Studio uses for a specific task.
If you open up the view selection dialog window (Window->Show View-> Other… or the keyboard combination of Alt+Shift+Q, then Q) you will see a full listing of all the views that are available, organized into their respective categories.

This is shown in the image above. Here I have expanded the listing of views for the General category, but there are 18 categories in all with an overall total of 88 views. These views can be mixed and matched as much as you want, and the good thing is that you can save your own collection of views under a saved name for future use.

Another good thing that ZSE provides is a number of predefined collections of views for you. Whether you make your own collection of views or you use one that ZSE provides they are collectively called Perspectives. There are 18 pre-defined Perspectives. If you do define your own perspective you can save it with the Window -> Save Perspective As… menu combination. Once you have selected a perspective to work within you can easily adjust them by adding, removing, or re-sizing any of the views.

As you would expect, the reason that ZSE provides some default Perspectives for you is that following the idea of having views in categories, they are designed to help with certain programming tasks: PHP coding, code debugging, accessing code repositories (SVN / CVS), interacting with databases, or performing XML work, just to name a few. To switch between perspectives, take note of the Perspectives bar on the right hand side of the tool bar. This has the ability to grow and shrink with the number of perspectives that you use on a regular basis, and allows you to quickly switch between any perspectives in the entire listing of them.

Well I hope you can get familiar with navigating between views and adjusting your perspectives to accomplish the tasks that you want to do within ZSE. Next time I will take you into the details of the PHP Perspective and what can be accomplished with the code writing views.

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Getting started with Zend Studio for Eclipse: Views, Perspectives, and Workspaces

I am Peter MacIntyre and beginning with this post, I will start my series on Zend Studio at the OSSCube blog. Since, this is the first post, I will start with a rather straight forward topic; that of getting underway with setting up the programming environment in Zend Studio for Eclipse – the next generation in the Zend Studio IDE family. We will not cover the installation procedure as that is fairly easy on each platform.  We will just take a look at the environment after a fresh install.

In this series, I will write on a progressive basis showing the reader more Zend Studio for Eclipse tips, tricks, and best practices; so stay tuned, this is only the beginning.

What we will be doing in this post is to introduce you to the basic look of the Zend Studio IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Take a look at the following image. This is the basic environment that you will see once you open Zend Studio for Eclipse (ZSE) for the first time and close the welcome screen. Here, there are a number of tabbed interfaces called views.

What is a view? Generally speaking every tab area in the Eclipse IDE is known as a View and a collection of views is known as a Perspective. One great thing about ZSE is that you can open and close, re-size, and relocate views. As well, you can save your re-arrangements as your own custom perspectives. ZSE comes with many pre-defined perspectives and this first one (shown in the image) is known as the PHP Perspective.

On the left hand side you will see a column showing the active project or projects in the PHP Explorer view. This view is where you can control all the files in a project or multiple projects. In this case we are looking at the ExampleProject and three entities that are attached to it.

When ZSE opens up it starts by looking for a Workspace. This is a folder on your development machine where all your projects are stored. You can have multiple workspace locations defined if you want. To change from one workspace to another simply use the file->Switch Workspace->Other menu combination to open up the dialog box that will allow you to select a different folder where you may have another workspace of projects defined. If you do decide to switch to a different workspace, ZSE will have to restart in order to read in all the associated settings and particulars that are defined for that new workspace.

That is all for my initial blog, stay tuned as we continue to dig deeper into ZSE and its many benefits, features, and integration points.

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Is Zend Framework Development the Best Framework?

Is Zend Framework development the best framework available in the market?

There might be a difference of opinion here, but statistics and surveys conducted in the past couple of years suggest that Zend Framework is the most popular development frame work among developers and designers. The rising demand for Zend Framework experts supports this point of view.

Even if you don’t accept that Zend framework development is the best in the domain, you can’t deny the fact that it is the most popular development framework.

Let’s have a look at some frameworks available in the market, so that we can have a better perspective while selecting the best framework to develop your website.

Smarty Framework:

Also known as Template Engine, this framework offers simplified development and deployment of web applications. Pure PHP Option and Template Inheritance have enabled this framework to become a very useful tool for web development.

CakePHP:

Like Zend, this too is an open source framework that can provide rapid web application development. It has the capability to produce an extensive architecture for development, deployment as well as maintenance of web applications. It can also cut costs and reduce coding efforts because of its MVC and ORM common design patterns

Symfony:

This framework can provide architectural tools for developing highly complex web applications. Symfony is also compliant with most of the web’s best practices and design patterns, and has supplementary tools that can provide facilities for testing, debugging and documentation

Pardo:

It is a framework that generally offers rapid web programming. Pardo is an event driven and component based framework that contains a specification file (XML), an HTML template and a PHP class. This framework provides tam integration and is simple, strong, and easy to use.

In comparison to the frameworks discussed above, Zend has a number of significant and rich features that make it a better framework for web development. Zend Framework development has a highly modular Model-View-Controller design, making the code more reusable and easier to maintain. It also has a flexible architecture, which helps Zend framework experts in building interactive web applications with ease.

Tips to Choose the Best PHP Services Provider

Anyone, who has gone through my previous blog, must be convinced that PHP services are the best bet, when it comes to web development.

If you are looking for PHP services like PHP application development, PHP consulting, PHP staff augmentation or PHP software development, where will you go? Where will you start looking for PHP developers or programmers?

First things first; start looking for web development companies that offer the particular PHP service that you require. Generally, Web development companies provide the following PHP services:

• PHP Web-Development (Website and Portals)
• PHP Application Development
• PHP Staff Augmentation
• PHP Software Development
• Product Development
• PHP Trainings
• PHP Consultancy
• PHP Application Support & Maintenance

After you have a list of the PHP service providers, you can start checking and cross-checking their backgrounds. Consider the pointers given below, to choose the web development company that fits your bill:

• Experience and expertise in PHP services
• Standing and reputation of the vendor in the market
• Development facilities and infrastructure
• Development costs/cost-efficiency
• Strength/quality of PHP developers/programmers
• Delivery process and timeline
• Level of Transparency during the implementation process.
• After-sales services like installation, support and maintenance

An ideal PHP services provider should deliver you unparalleled and cost-effective services. The right vendor must give you an edge over your rivals and help you in boosting your business success.

PHP Services – Best Bet for Web Development

PHP Services? PHP Application Development? PHP Software Development? PHP Staff Augmentation? PHP Consulting?

Do you any idea what they are, or are they Greek to you?

If you belong to the latter category (though I don’t expect anyone to be), let me first tell you what PHP is, and what it has to do with web development, in a very simple and easy way to understand.

So for all the newbies in the business, PHP is a server side scripting language, designed sometime in 1994. It is usually written in an HTML context to build dynamic web pages, fast and easy; in fact, faster and easier than most other platforms in the business. And of course, it is free.

Languages for web development are a dime a dozen; there are many players in the domain. PHP is considered to be the best among the lot, and it has been adopted by major vendors like Linux. No wonder, businesses take PHP services for web development.

So, other than being fast and free, what does PHP have, to command such a loyal following? Why do companies look for PHP services, when it comes to web development?  What does it have that other don’t have, making it a cut above the rest?

Well, I hope the few pointers below might answer some of these questions. When you take PHP services – PHP application development, PHP consulting, PHP staff augmentation or PHP software development, you definitely get some benefits, because:

• PHP is fast with a lightweight design
• PHP can build dynamic pages and develop highly interactive applications
• PHP can be used with most operating systems
• PHP is easy to learn
• PHP is stable and reliable

I suppose, these are enough reasons for you to choose PHP services over other web scripting languages for web development. What do you say?

PHP UK Conference 2011

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Fri, 02/25/2011

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London

PHP UK Conference 2011 is PHP London’s sixth annual conference. The PHP UK Conference 2011 is powered by PHP London, a limited company of the UK. OSSCube is participating at the conference as an exhibitor.

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