advice needed about PHP zend engine

[isaac_cm]

Hello,

I used to write normal PHP script with dreamweaver to build web sites but dreameaver did not provide many things for PHP programmer specially debugging this in reverse to zend studio which has many nice features

 

But for someone like me used to use only dreamweaver to write HTML and JavaScript is it easy to do the same with zend studio ? is the moving process is easy ? is the zend framework easy to learn ?

 

I learned PHP only through making a real ecommerce web sites with the help of some ebooks and this nice forum.

 

Plz Advice.

Thanks alot

[Fadion]

As noone has replied to this, im gonna give my 2 cents. Ive been using dreamweaver for ages making html/css sites and from some time also for php. In my opinion it is the best all around editor and especially for html. As far as php is concerned it isnt offering too much, just site managment, code coloring and some pretty basic code hinting. With some extensions one can make it a bit more advance but still it remains mediocre. While Zend Studio (ive used it just a couple of times) has some exeptional code hinting and coloring, real time code highlighting and very powerful debugger. The debug thing is pretty good because with dreamweaver u have to rely only on php error display which makes debugging complex scripts a pain in the a**. For long and complex scripts id suggest using zend studio, otherwise id stick to dreamweaver as it offers a very flexible environment allowing to easily insert html and css.

[Fadion]

And to correct the title, Zend Engine is the scripting engine that powers php 4 (ZE II in php5), while Zend Studio is the scripting environment 

[isaac_cm]

but what about zend framework does it offer good features to use it ?

 

thanks