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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

By : M A Hossain Tonu
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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

By: M A Hossain Tonu

Overview of this book

<p>NetBeans has many features that greatly simplify PHP development, and with its several features and great flexibility, PHP developers can become overwhelmed by the IDE's options. This book provides step-by-step instructions that show you how to take control of the environment and make use of these features to make your PHP application development more efficient and productive than ever before.<br /><br />"PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide" leads you through the crucial parts of PHP programming and shows you how to use the features of NetBeans that will improve your PHP development experience, through clear and easy instructions.<br /><br />The book gets you started with the development environment and tools, and takes you through working on practical projects with a clear focus. With each chapter being mission-critical, the book is a perfect companion to boost your PHP coding productivity and gain experience with even complex projects.<br /><br />The book starts with setting up the PHP development environment and introduces exciting and useful IDE features. You'll learn how to build real life PHP projects such as Facebook like Status Updater and even User Registration, Login &amp; Logout application. Also the book will introduce you with some must know development tools such as debugging &amp; testing tools, source documenter tools, and versioning tools.<br /><br />Working with the NetBeans IDE for PHP development has its own advantages, and this book reassures the purpose. This book is full of illustrations, screenshots, and clear instructions to take your PHP development to a new level and even shows you time-saving tricks and other productivity enhancements.</p>

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PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide
M A Hossain Tonu
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PHP Application Development with NetBeans Beginner's Guide
PHP Application Development with NetBeans Beginner's Guide
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setting up your Development Environment
Setting up your Development Environment
Why NetBeans for PHP application development?
Downloading the NetBeans IDE
Time for action — downloading the NetBeans IDE
Installing NetBeans
Time for action — installing NetBeans step by step
Setting up your development environment in Windows
Time for action — installing XAMPP in Windows
Setting up your development environment in the Ubuntu desktop
Time for action — installing LAMP on the Ubuntu desktop
Setting up your development environment in Mac OS X
Time for action — installing MAMP in Mac OS X
Creating a NetBeans PHP project
Time for action — creating a NetBeans PHP project
Summary
2
Boosting Your Coding Productivity with the PHP Editor
Boosting Your Coding Productivity with the PHP Editor
Familiarizing yourself with the base IDE features
Exploring the editor for PHP
Exploring more with the editor
Using rename refactoring and instant rename
Using code completion
Using the code generator
Summary
3
Building a Facebook-like Status Poster using NetBeans
Building a Facebook-like Status Poster using NetBeans
Planning the project
Creating the status stream display list
Time for action — connecting with MySQL database server
Time for action — creating MySQL database and table
Time for action — creating a class, adding a constructor, and creating methods
Time for action — adding CSS support to the document
Time for action — adding jQuery support and custom JS library
Time for action — showing the status list
Hatching out the status poster using PHP-AJAX
Time for action — adding the status input box to the interface
Time for action — creating status poster using JQuery AJAX
Summary
4
Debugging and Testing using NetBeans
Debugging and Testing using NetBeans
Debugging the ancient art of programming
Debugging PHP source code with XDebug
Configuring XDebug
Time for action — installing XDebug on Windows
Time for action — installing XDebug on Ubuntu
Debugging the PHP source with NetBeans
Time for action — running a debugging session
Time for action — adding the expression to watch
Testing with PHPUnit
Time for action — installing PHPUnit via PEAR
Time for action — testing with PHPUnit
Time for action — using code coverage
Testing using the Selenium framework
Time for action — running tests with Selenium
Summary
5
Using Code Documentation
Using Code Documentation
Writing great documentation
PHPDoc—commenting standard for PHP
Documenting the source code
Time for action — documenting a PHP function or method
Time for action — documenting the PHP class and class variables
Time for action — using @todo tags
Documenting the API
Time for action — installing ApiGen and configuring it with NetBeans
Time for action — generating documentation using ApiGen
Summary
6
Understanding Git, the NetBeans Way
Understanding Git, the NetBeans Way
Version control system
Git the fast and distributed version control system
Understanding Git, the NetBeans way
Time for action — initializing a Git repository
Time for action — cloning a Git repository from GitHub via the SSH protocol
Staging files to a Git repository
Time for action — staging files to a Git repository
Committing changes to the repository
Time for action — committing changes to the local repository
Time for action — using diff from the IDE
Time for action — reverting changes of the working tree
Working with remote repositories
Time for action — fetching source code updates
Time for action — pulling updates from the remote repository
Time for action — pushing source code changes
Working with branches
Time for action — creating a branch
Time for action — checking out a branch
Time for action — merging into current branch
Good practices and workflow
Summary
7
Building User Registration, Login, and Logout
Building User Registration, Login, and Logout
Planning the project
Understanding the application architecture
Designing the database
Creating the data access layer
Time for action — creating the BaseDao class
Time for action — creating the User Dao class
Creating the Service layer
Time for action — creating the ValidatorService class
Time for action — creating the UserService class
Building the application
Time for action — creating the user application
Time for action — creating the user interface
Summary
Introducing Symfony2 Support in NetBeans 7.2
Introducing Symfony2 Support in NetBeans 7.2
Downloading and integrating the latest Symfony Standard Edition
Time for action — integrating Symfony2 with NetBeans
Creating a new Symfony2 project
Time for action — creating a Symfony2 project using NetBeans
Running Symfony2 console commands inside NetBeans
Time for action — creating a bundle using the Symfony2 console command
NetBeans Keyboard Shortcuts
NetBeans Keyboard Shortcuts
File menu
Edit menu
View menu
Navigate menu
Source menu
Refactor menu
Run menu
Debug menu
Window menu
Scrolling and selecting
Modifying text
Code folding
Searching for text
Setting tabs
Pop Quiz Answers
Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 2, Boosting your Coding Productivity with the PHP Editor
Chapter 3, Building a Facebook-like Status Poster using NetBeans
Chapter 4, Debugging and Testing using NetBeans
Chapter 5, Using Code Documentation
Chapter 6, Understanding Git, the NetBeans way

Time for action — installing XAMPP in Windows

The following steps will download and install the XAMPP package:

  1. 1. We will download the installer for the latest XAMPP package from: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html.

  2. 2. After completing the download, run the .exe file to proceed with the installation. More installation details can be found at: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html.

  3. 3. You will be given a choice to install the Apache server and the MySQL database server as services, so you don't need to start them manually from the XAMPP Control Panel. Again, you will have the option to configure those services, such as start/stop, run as service, and uninstall from the XAMPP control panel later.

  4. 4. After completing the installation process successfully, you will be able to proceed with further steps. Open the XAMPP control panel from your operating system's Start | Programs | XAMPP.

    Svc checkboxes indicate that the module was installed as a Windows service, and hence will start with the Windows startup, or you can check them to be running as a service. If you ever need to restart your Apache web server, use the Stop/Start button besides Status of Apache.

  5. 5. Now, check your XAMPP installation. Visit the URL http://localhost from your web browser; the XAMPP welcome page looks similar to the following screenshot:

  6. 6. From the left, click phpinfo() to check the PHP release and the installed components that you have configured:

  7. 7. Click on the Status menu under the Welcome menu to check the installed tools status; the activated green status beside corresponding columns means that you are running Apache, MySQL, and PHP successfully:

What just happened?

We have successfully installed and run the XAMPP package on our system. We have the XAMPP control panel in order to control the installed services and we also have a web interface to manage MySQL databases.

Have a go hero — securing your XAMPP installation

XAMPP is not meant for production use, but only for developers in a development environment. XAMPP is configured to be as open as possible, and it allows the web developers to fetch anything they want. For development environments, this is great. But, in a production environment, it could be fatal. So, you need to secure your XAMPP installation with the help of the A matter of security section, at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html.

Note

To display errors in the development environment, update the loaded php.ini file to set display_errors = On, and do the reverse display_errors = Off for the production environment.

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