PHP Application Development with NetBeans: Beginner's Guide

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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 & Logout application. Also the book will introduce you with some must know development tools such as debugging & 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>

PHP Application Development with NetBeans Beginner's Guide

PHP Application Development with NetBeans Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scrolling and selecting

Searching for text

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

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Time for action — running a debugging session

This section illustrates standard debugging sessions, and we will create a sample project to practice debugging on it:

1. Create a NetBeans PHP project. For our example, we name it chapter4.

2. Type the following code in the index.php file:

<?php
$fruits = array("Apple", "Banana", "Berry", "Watermelon");
$myfruit = "";
fruit_picker(); //first time call
echo "My fruit is : " . $myfruit . "<br />\n";
fruit_picker(); //second time call
echo "My fruit is now: " . $myfruit . "<br />\n";
fruit_picker(); //third time call
echo "My fruit is finally: " . $myfruit . "<br />\n";
function fruit_picker () {
Global $myfruit, $fruits;
$myfruit = $fruits[rand(0, 3)];
}
?>

The previous code contains:

A $fruits array containing fruit names.
A variable $myfruit, which contains a single fruit name as a string, initially with an empty string.
A method fruit_picker(), which picks a fruit name from the $fruits array on a random basis and changes...