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PHPEclipse: A User Guide

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PHPEclipse: A User Guide

Overview of this book

The fusion of Eclipse, the leading open source development environment, and PHP is an exciting prospect for web developers. This book makes sure that you are up and running as quickly as possible, ready to take full advantage of PHPEclipse's tuned PHP development tools, without requiring any prior knowledge of Eclipse. You will begin with installing and configuring PHPEclipse, before moving onto a tour of the Eclipse environment, familiarizing you with its main components. As a plug-in to Eclipse, PHPEclipse is able to harness the platform to provide a rich and powerful development experience. For helping you improve the efficiency of your PHP coding, the book details the powerful editing features of PHPEclipse, and shows you how to use it to better organize your application code. You will see how PHPEclipse helps you throughout the development lifecycle, and learn how to use PHPEclipse's debugger to troubleshoot and step through your PHP code as it executes. The book rounds off with coverage of accessing databases and managing source code from within the. For the final step for your application, you will learn how to deploy your site to a production server."
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

Summary

Eclipse is an IDE unlike any other. It is rare to find a product that enjoys fervent support from both major corporations and the open-source community. Eclipse, however, is one such product. Eclipse came about from IBM’s development and its subsequent rallying of support from industry businesses. Its final handoff of Eclipse to a non-profit corporation has only enhanced Eclipse’s potential. From the very first release, this free product was loaded with features that often cost thousands of dollars in other IDEs. The core philosophy of Eclipse is to be a tool to create other tools. It is often said that the Eclipse Platform is the ultimate tool to make tools. Its end-user license and architecture support this philosophy.

Taking advantage of this architecture is the PHPEclipse plug-in. Designed from the ground up to fulfill the needs of a PHP web developer, the combination of PHPEclipse and the Eclipse Platform gives everyone everything they would need to create web applications in a professional manner.