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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>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
PHP Application Development with NetBeans Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Time for action — generating documentation using ApiGen


Using integrated ApiGen from the IDE, we will run the documentation generator. Note that we need to define the target directory to store the HTML documents. Let's create the HTML documentation for our sample project, according to the following steps:

  1. 1. Right-click on the chapter5 project node. From the context menu, choose Properties | ApiGen, and the following Project Properties window will be displayed:

  2. 2. From the previous Project Properties window, define the Target Directory where the HTML pages will be stored, and uncheck the PHP box for excluding PHP's default elements from the documentation. In this project, let's create a directory named doc as the target directory inside the project, so that the documentation can be browsed at http://localost/chapter5/doc/.

  3. 3. Click on OK to save the settings.

  4. 4. Now, right-click on the chapter5 project node. This will generate a menu, which will look similar to the following screenshot:...