In this presentation Roy Ganor, the Zend Studio Project Lead discloses some of Zend Studio's deepest secrets and reveal some of those extremely useful but 'hidden' features of Zend Studio.

1. Roy Ganor | Zend Technologies
Zend Studio Tips and Tricks
http://joind.in/2266

3. • Mastering your IDE is as
important as mastering
your source code
• IDEs should be aware of
your development
workflows

4. Release Engineering Tools Short Keys
Project ManagementSource Editing

5. Short cuts are here!
ctrl == 
 == shift

6. Short Cuts

7. + + = Available short cutsctrl
 L
+ = Maximize editor/viewctrl M
+ = Quick access to workbenchctrl 3
+ = Switch between editorsctrl F6

8. + + = Block selectionalt
 A
+ = Quick searchctrl K
+ = Delete current linectrl D
+ / = Previous/Next editoralt  
+ / = Move line/salt  

9. + + = Comment Generatorctrl
 J
+ = Quick outlinectrl O
+ + = Open class / interfacectrl
 T
+ + = Toggle a breakpointctrl
 B
+ = Quick type hierarchyctrl T
+ + = Open function / methodctrl
 M

10. Source Editing

11. • When a content assist proposal is selected, an
automatic parameters completion is provided.
• Use Tab to skip between parameters
Content
Assist
Template
Proposal
Altering
parameters

12. • The default color scheme is changed to provide a cleaner more
standard editor colors.
• More rules are now available
• Internal functions
• Deprecated elements
• Static variables
• And many more…
• Windows > Preferences > PHP > Editor > Syntax Coloring

13. • When the quick outline is displayed, click on ctrl+o once
again to list all inherited members of the class.
• Short-cut: ctrl+o (twice)
Show Inherited Members

14. • When a breakpoint is hit, the Debug view opens. Step
through the code, inspect and display variables and
expressions
• Short-cut: ctrl+shift+i
New “Inspect” Action

15. Refactoring – Extract variable/method
1. Select a valid expression
2. + + = Extract VariableAlt  L


16. Code Navigation
Select a valid class / interface, method / function
+ + = Show referencesctrl  G
+ + = Call hierarchyctrl alt H

17. Project Management

18. Project Management Tips
1. Separate back-end, front-end and tests
projects
2. Exclude irrelevant resources from “build”
folders
3. Use working Sets

19. Use you own Formatter

20. Task Repository Connectors
1. Bugzilla
2. Mantis
3. Trac
4. Attlasian
5. Tasktop

21. Remote Server Support

22. Build Tools (RelEng)

23. Team Project Set
1. File | Import | Team | Team Project Set
2. Import shared team resources and repositories
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<psf version="2.0">
<provider id="org.eclipse.team.cvs.core.cvsnature">
<project reference="1.0,:pserver:my.company.repo:/repos,module/project1"/>
<project reference="1.0,:pserver:my.company.repo:/repos,module/project1"/>
...
<project reference="1.0,:ext:oss.org:/cvsroot/ns,module/project,v200909160005"/>
<project reference="1.0,:ext:oss.org:/cvsroot/ns,module/project,v200904131653"/>
...
</provider>
<workingSets ...> </workingSets>
<psf>

24. Zend Studio Builders
Automate code generation, templates and other stuff!

25. Recap
• It’s more than just “tips and tricks”…
• Experienced teams improve their development
processes
• by adding custom behavior to their tools
• More than 30 useful tips
• Short Cuts
• Project Management tips
• Source Editing tips
• Release Engineering (Build Tools) tips

26. Q&A
Roy Ganor – roy@zend.com, @royganor, http://ganoro.blogspot.com/
Eclipse PDT forums - http://www.eclipse.org/forums/
Zend Studio forum - http://forums.zend.com/