On the O'Reilly PHP blog (ONLamp.com), there's a new post by Michael Ross with an overview of the popular PHP IDE from Zend, their Zend Studio for Eclipse:

Zend Studio for Eclipse is the company's latest update of its PHP IDE, and carries a version number of 6.0. As a foundation, it uses Eclipse, an extensible open source platform for software development that is growing in functionality and widespread usage every year. It also utilizes the PHP Development Tools (PDT) framework.

He looks at the product from all sides - the releases of the products, requirements, pricing, installation and an overview of the interface (complete with screenshots). He also mentions other features that come bundled with the editor like testing integration, file/version management and a built in debugger (as well as special support for the Zend Framework).

Christian Wenz has pointed out one of the latest releases from Zend - the latest updates for their Zend Studio for Eclipse product (and Zend Studio too).

I am probably not the first to notice that, but thought it would be worth mentioning anyway. Zend have released version 6.0 of Zend Studio for Eclipse. Actually, this version 6.0 is the first final version of the Eclipse edition of Zend Studio.

He walks through this new version, commenting on everything from the interface to the version of PHP it cmes with out to an issue he had with updating (and how it was corrected).

Debugging can be one of the most important tools to a developer (web or otherwise) and one of the more popular PHP IDEs, Zend Studio, makes it relatively simple to do. The Developer Tutorials website has this new tutorial to help you get started on the path to being bug free.

For the majority of experienced PHP developers, Zend Studio is considered the top-of-the-line PHP IDE. [...] In this tutorial, we will explore how to use the latest update of Zend Studio for debugging PHP scripts.

They walk through an overview of the IDE, some of the requirements and the install process and, finally, they finish it off with a few pages talking about how the get the debugging up and running.

Michael Kimsal mentions the posting of his latest show for his podcast - WebDevRadio, episode #34:

[This show contains a] quick overview of upcoming interviews, and mentions of the projectzero webdev project from IBM, Sheeri Kritzer’s OurSQL podcast, my upcoming SOLR presentation @ OSCON, and a bit more.

Also included in this show is a look at a PHP4->PHP5 XML wrapper that looks to take care of some of the transition of XML functionality when making the move between PHP4 and PHP5.

You can grab this latest show here or subscribe to the feed and get more shows, both past and future.