Zend has announced the release of Zend Studio 5.5, a new version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for PHP. Zend Studio 5.5 costs $99 or $299 for Standard and Professional editions, respectively.
Zend Studio helps Web developers who want to create content using PHP Hypertext Processor (PHP), a programming language used for delivering dynamic, database-drive content on the Web. The software features debugging tools, team development and management capabilities, support for popular professional databases such as MySQL, Oracle and others and more.
New features in the 5.5 release include support for PHP 5.2, support for Intel-based Macs, anti-aliasing, Web services code completion that now supports URLs in SoapClient constructors, code completion for Java packages and classes, ability to view PHP runtime events in Zend Platform Events Lists, enabling code completion for Zend Framework, and color marking in the file explorer based on source control status.
System requirements call for a PowerPC or Intel-based Mac running Mac OS X v10.4 or later.