Quick review: Zend Studio Neon Beta

Just managed to download the Neon Beta. I've never used eclipse before, so I was quite excited (and tore off the christmas wrapping vigorously). Spent a couple of minutes playing and was quite impressed. It seems to do everything Zend Studio does and more. Its not kludgy as I expected, once loaded the menu and tools are very responsive.

Much tighter integration with Zend Framework. For instance choosing a "new zend framework project" creates the entire MVC file structure for you, plus Index and Error controllers. Click new controller/model/view from the menu and you are prompted for the name and the new file is created for you in the correct location.

Same type of integration is provided for PHP Unit test cases and suits. The other extra features:

- more advanced HTML editor with pane to set element properties
- refactoring, ofcourse
- ability to set tasks for active pages
- complete log of change history per page

The standard Zend Studio Pro features are also included:
- Remote debugging
- Zend Platform events
- SQL and FTP integration