On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, sam_girish wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> I have few queries as follows
>
> 1) What is Eclipse IDE and what is the difference between Zend
> Studio for Eclipse and Eclipse IDE?
>
> 2) Why and what is meant by Eclipse Based IDE's ?
>
> 3) Do I have an equivalent of Visual Studio 2008 IDE for PHP
> ? where I can develop PHP Pages similar to Visual Studio like
> dragging and dropping buttons, database connection with
> sqldatasource, ajax controls etc..
>
> 4) Will Zend Studio for Eclipse or Delphi for PHP can replace
> Visual Studio IDE?
>
> 5) What is Zend Framework ? Is Zend Studio includes Zend
> Framework ?
>
> 6) Can I include other CMS Projects like Drupal, Joomla,
> Nucleus in Zend Studio to develop further according to the
> requirements ?
>
> Regards, Girish
>
The most important point is 5. and from it follows all other
concerns.
Zend framework is a "architecturally non-intrusive", use-at-will
framework for developing applications using PHP 5.x with
multiple database backends.
Zend framework (ZF) provides components for
. MVC
. Table data
. Row data
You'd use ZF for really three things
. want to use fully OO PHP5 constructs
. extensible MVC with rich templating
. flexible caching schemes
PHP draws it major power from high-performance extensions and
Zend Framework supports that completely.
The PHP Development Tools (PDT) plugin is for Eclipse IDE
framework and provides a rich development environment that
integrates with the available tools and infrastructure.
Hope this helps.
thanks
Saifi.
