Zend Studio Tips and Tricks #zendcon 10

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

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

Project Management
Source Editing
Release Engineering Tools
Short Keys

Short cuts are here!
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ctrl
shift
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Short Cuts

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Maximize editor/view
Quick access to workbench
Switch between editors
ctrl
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M
3
F6
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Available short cuts
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ctrl
L

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Quick search
Delete current line
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ctrl
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K
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Block selection
Previous/Next editor
Move line/s
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alt
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A
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Quick outline
Quick type hierarchy
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T
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Comment Generator
Open class / interface
Toggle a breakpoint
Open function / method
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J
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Source Editing

When a content assist proposal is selected, an automatic parameters completion is provided.
Use Tab to skip between parameters

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

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

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

Refactoring – Extract variable/method
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Select a valid expression
Extract Variable
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Alt
L
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Code Navigation
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Select a valid class / interface, method / function
Show references
Call hierarchy
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ctrl
ctrl
G
H
alt

Project Management

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

Use you own Formatter

Task Repository Connectors
Bugzilla
Mantis
Trac
Attlasian
Tasktop

Remote Server Support

Build Tools (RelEng)

Team Project Set
File | Import | Team | Team Project Set
Import shared team resources and repositories
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<psfversion="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>

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

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

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/

Zend Studio Tips and Tricks #zendcon 10

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