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zend studio 6 fails – going back to zend 5.5

Posted by chris on June 6th, 2009 in Programming

Zend, the PHP Company, took a major step back with their PHP IDE when they moved it too the eclipse platform. I’m not a fan of eclipse, I don’t even like using it for Java development – which its built for. Zend Studio 6 is slow, clunky, the user interface is confusing, the FTP component is horrible.

If you can name it, Zend 5.5 beats Zend 6 at it, except for javascript support. However, I only need a JavaScript IDE for when I am doing heavy JavaScript coding or debugging. The worst part about Zend Studio 6 is the FTP component. Every time you save a file – it refreshes the folders and closes them all. So you can to open the folder again and wait everytime you make a save! Finally I decided to update the program hoping they had fixed this bug. When I updated to the latest version I was no longer able to connect to most of the FTP servers I had (roughly 10), one of which was to this domain.

At the point I uninstalled and went back to Zend 5.5 and wrote this article. Flat out, Zend Studio 6 sucks.

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3 Responses to “zend studio 6 fails – going back to zend 5.5”

  1. bretticus says:
    June 20, 2009 at 3:18 am

    I agree. I had a heck of a time getting ZS 5.1 to work under Windows 7 but it’s totally worth it! What on earth were they thinking?

  2. untuned says:
    August 6, 2009 at 5:52 am

    I agree too. Studio 7 is just as bad. If they would have just added javascript support to 5.5 and called it 6.0, it would have been perfect.

  3. Lowkee says:
    December 19, 2009 at 10:48 pm

    I just installed Zend Studio 7.1 last night, deciding to make a Drupal blog. I uploaded the source to the host, then tried to edit some files via FTP using Studio 7.1.. What a joke. I couldn’t get it to sync via the ‘remove system’ configuration, so I tried simply adding the FTP folder to a new project via ‘add as include’, well that froze it completely. I just reinstalled Studio 5.5.1.

    I agree, Eclipse has always sucked, and piling Studio on top of it was the worse idea since bad ideas were created. Eclipse is the electronic equivalent of the Unimog, and neither is something you want to own. I can’t believe I ever paid for Studio 6, I could never, EVER get it to work correctly, let alone get any coding done using it.

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