Roy Ganor | Zend Technologies

Zend Studio Tips and Tricks

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• Mastering your IDE is as important as mastering your source code

• IDEs should be aware of your development workflows

Release Engineering Tools Short Keys

Project ManagementSource Editing

Short cuts are here!

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Short Cuts

+ + = Available short cutsctrl L

+ = Maximize editor/viewctrl M

+ = Quick access to workbenchctrl 3

+ = Switch between editorsctrl F6

+ + = Block selectionalt A

+ = Quick searchctrl K

+ = Delete current linectrl D

+ / = Previous/Next editoralt

+ / = Move line/salt

+ + = Comment Generatorctrl J

+ = Quick outlinectrl O

+ + = Open class / interfacectrl T

+ + = Toggle a breakpointctrl B

+ = Quick type hierarchyctrl T

+ + = Open function / methodctrl M

Source Editing

• 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

• 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

1. Select a valid expression

2. + + = Extract VariableAlt L

Code Navigation

Select a valid class / interface, method / function

+ + = Show referencesctrl G

+ + = Call hierarchyctrl alt H

Project Management

Project Management Tips

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

2. Exclude irrelevant resources from “build” folders

3. Use working Sets

Use you own Formatter

Task Repository Connectors

1. Bugzilla

2. Mantis

3. Trac

4. Attlasian

5. Tasktop

Remote Server Support

Build Tools (RelEng)

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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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/