PHP development and deployment just got way easier. Today, we're pleased to announce the 1.0 availability of the Aptana PHP development environment. It's got all the things you'd expect from a PHP IDE, plus all the Ajax tooling and other power tools from Aptana Studio. Combine that with the integrated PHP app hosting, staging and management features in Aptana Cloud and you've got an end-to-end PHP development and deployment environment with unprecedented ease of use.

Learn more at our updated PHP section on aptana.com, or get the Aptana PHP plugin for Aptana Studio now and start using the full 1.0 release.

Thank you to all who participated in the betas for both Aptana PHP and Aptana Cloud. Your feedback helps us make the best possible solutions for you. Keep that feedback coming because we're gearing up for the next versions of these already.

We've also started a PHP screencast library. Get insights to working with Aptana PHP and PHP in Aptana Cloud from the engineers who created the software. As of today, you'll find a collection of these screencasts at the new www.aptana.com/php page along with other resources to rapidly get up to speed with Aptana PHP. We'll also be adding to that screencast library over-time with more insights and tips from our team. Just subscribe to this RSS feed to get notified of when new screencasts are available.

I thought you'd also be interested in what some people are saying about Aptana's PHP support in Studio and in Cloud:

"My team and I have used Zend, PHPEdit, and Aptana Studio, all for extended periods of time. All packages 'do the job', but Aptana’s tools actually help you to code more efficiently, and in many different arenas. Today's web developer needs to understand more than one language, and Aptana understands that, with tools for PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, AIR, and others."
-- Greg Ervin, IT director for Aurora WDC, a competitive intelligence research firm.

"[IntelliJ] was my editor of choice … But Aptana Studio has delivered a game-changer: the IDE provides integrated deployment to cloud servers."
-- Benjamin Shine, Web developer

"If you're looking to host a PHP application with minimum fuss and the option of scaling up/down then Aptana Cloud is a great choice and certainly by far the easiest way I’ve ever seen to getting an app up and running in the cloud."
-- John Beynon, Web developer with the firm Monochrome

Even with all that's in this release, we want to make Aptana PHP even better for you. So, please be vocal in the forums with your likes or dislikes and report bugs or request feature enhancements through http://support.aptana.com.

Thanks!

-Paul