zend studio tips and tricks

Zend Studio Tips and Tricks

By Roy Ganor

Eclipse PDT (PHP) & ATF (Ajax) Project Lead

Zend Studio Project Lead

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Mastering your tools is as important as mastering your code

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Release Engineering Tools

Short Keys

Project Management

Source Editing

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Short cuts are here!

ctrl

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shift

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Short Cuts

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+ + = Available short cutsctrl L

+ = Maximize editor/viewctrl M

+ = Quick access to workbench

ctrl 3

+ = Switch between editorsctrl F6

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+ + = Block selectionalt A

+ = Quick searchctrl K

+ = Delete current linectrl D

+ / = Previous/Next editoralt

+ / = Move line/salt

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+ + = Comment Generatorctrl J

+ = Quick outlinectrl O

+ + = Open class / interface

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+ + = Toggle a breakpointctrl B

+ = Quick type hierarchyctrl T

+ + = Open function / methodctrl M

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Source Editing

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Code assist hints

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Code assist CamelCase

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Code assist – Magic functions

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Refactoring – Extract variable/method

1. Select a valid expression

2. + + = Extract VariableAlt L

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Code Navigation

Select a valid class / interface, method / function

+ + = Show referencesctrl G

+ + = Call hierarchyctrl alt H

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Use mark occurrences

• Variables, methods and classes

• Inherited elements

• Exit paths

• Include statements

• Write vs. Read

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CVS/SVN – Show annotation (blame mode)

Right click on the left-side annotation bar and select “Show Annotations”

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Project Management

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Project Management Tips

1. Separate back-end, front-end and tests projects

2. Exclude irrelevant resources from “build” folders

3. Use working Sets

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Use you own Formatter

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Task Repository Connectors

1. Bugzilla

2. Mantis

3. Trac

4. Attlasian

5. Tasktop

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Build Tools (RelEng)

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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>

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Zend Studio Builders

• Automate code generation, templates and other stuff!

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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

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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/