---
title: "Coal and Switches in Zend's Stocking This Year"
description: "Zend Studio can't handle PHP 5.1.1 or Firefox 1.5, and The PHP Company doesn't seem to care."
date: 2005-12-02
url: https://claylo.dev/articles/coal-and-switches-in-zends-stocking-this-year
---

So here it is — December. We've got a shiny new [PHP 5.1.1](http://www.php.net/), which as been anticipated for weeks, at least. (I'd been expecting its release any day for a good 2-3 weeks before it finally shipped.) We've also got a zippy new [Firefox 1.5](http://www.getfirefox.com/) release, another project whose release was fairly well telegraphed and expected for the last month.

And then we've got [Zend Studio](http://www.zend.com/), a cornerstone of "The PHP Company". After upgrading to PHP 5.1.1 and Firefox 1.5 this week, I was been shocked to discover that Zend Studio 5 and the Zend Studio Firefox Plug-In are both in a state of rectal-cranial inversion: neither Zend Studio 5 or the Firefox Plug-In are expected to support PHP 5.1.1 or Firefox 1.5 until late December/early January.

So, I won't be able to leverage the holiday lull to really hammer on projects in PHP 5.1.1 using the Zend tools I've come to rely on.

And get this: Zend's own product website for Zend Studio 5 claims support for [All PHP Versions](http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio/requirements.php), and the Zend Studio Firefox Plug-In boldly [claims to support Firefox 0.9 and above.](http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-studio/plug-ins.php)

In reality, however, Zend Support's reaction to my support tickets raising these incompatibility issues was essentially: huh? Oh man, give us a month.

There's absolutely no excuse for this delay that can be considered acceptable for a company who claims to be "The PHP Company." Perhaps [Santa](http://www.northpole.com/Mailroom/mailform.html) will leave a clue under the tree for these guys.