CUPERTINO, USA: Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP Company has announced the immediate availability of Zend Studio 7.1, which adds significant new capabilities to the company’s overall PHP solution.

Zend Studio is the only integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP that provides a complete, professional-grade workbench built on the Zend-led open source Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project, currently the most downloaded Eclipse project said a press release.

Zend Studio customers benefit from the huge ecosystem of plug-in solutions available in the Eclipse community. The combined set of capabilities provides a solution that maximizes productivity for developers while providing the integration to Zend Framework and Zend Server that enterprises require.

“PHP is now widespread in many enterprises and this update to Zend Studio helps streamline team development processes by providing additional benefits for developers building dynamic, professional-grade PHP applications,” said Andi Gutmans, CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies.

Zend Studio 7.1 adds features and enhancements to ease development tasks and increase developer productivity. New features in Zend Studio 7.1:

In addition, Zend Studio 7.0, released mid-summer, has key features that include:

- Support for PHP 5.3, Point-and-click Zend Framework coding, - Enhanced integration with Zend Server, and Zend Studio 7.0’s support for Zend Server.