Zend Studio is an award-winning and professional PHP language integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, which has been recognized as the most powerful PHP IDE in the world. It is able to speed up the development cycle, simplify complex application scheme, and has become one of PHP developers' favorite PHP development tools. BTW, sine its version 5.5 series, Zend Studio has started being rebuilt based on the Eclipse platform.

PHP for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide is a classic introduction book that covers all the basic things about PHP language. It introduces the basic concepts, using methods and the matters needing attention of the PHP language to the beginners in plain language. The whole book uses abundant examples to lead the reader to master this popular Web development language step by step, and enables reader to get started on writing PHP scripts that are applicable to many common scenes.