Adobe and Zend Technologies announced Flash Builder Software 4.5 for PHP development, which is a new integrated product designed to help PHP developers in the development of rich Internet applications for Mobile, Desktop and Web platform.

Zend offers its own distribution of PHP, the popular open-source scripting language for Web applications, and sells software and support services around it.

The Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP will give developers a single code base for the development of applications for Android, Blackberry Tablet OS and iOS while sharing the same code from Web applications at the same time.

Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 for PHP includes an integrated copy of Zend Studio 8, which allows developers to develop Flash based applications within a single environment. Specifically, the integrated software offers a single UI framework to create Flex and PHP projects for desktop and mobile and the ability to connect to PHP services and generate ActionScript value objects.