Actually that’s a “will be”, as in a matter of hours :) . The download will be available later today. Unlike those of us in GMT+, Zend Technologies is 8+ hours behind us on the US Pacific.

Edit: 1.0 is now available for download from HERE.

I’m looking forward to getting rid of the nightly build I have from God knows when, and grabbing the Eclipse PDT 1.0 release. I’m a long time Eclipse user, so I really want to get that download (when Zend get around to rolling out of bed today ;) ) and start using it.

The nightly I have is already cool enough. It has all the usual features one expects a good IDE to show: code completion, syntax highlighting, phpDoc features, code folding, and debugging. It has a few noteworthy extras like inspection (file and project outline, the PHP Explorer view) and integration with WTP (Web Tools Platform). It’s a nice collection, and the 1.0 release should resolve a couple of issues the nightly gave me.

I think one of the issues to watch, is that PDT doesn’t offer a debugger off the bat. You need to get hold of Zend Debugger, or my personal favourite XDebug. XDebug incidentally had 2.0.0 released by Derrick Rethans during July so go look it up. An all-in-one download will include the Zend Debugger if you’re installing from scratch .

You can find out about Eclipse PDT over at:
http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/.

You should see the new 1.0 download appear in a couple of hours. If you are new to Eclipse, there will be an Eclipse PDT All-In-One style download to take the usual pain out of installing/updating Eclipse/PDT/WTP/Zend-Debugger individually by installing the lot at once. From there you can expand your platform – installing Subclipse (Subversion support!) for example.

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