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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

Appendix B. The Eclipse Update Manager

The Eclipse Update Manager is a mechanism used by Eclipse to keep track of its own plug-ins. The Update Manager keeps track of plug-in versions, informs you if a newer version is available, and helps you install new plug-ins. In fact, PHPEclipse recommends that you install its plug‑in via the Eclipse Update Manager.

In this appendix, we will take a look at how to use the Eclipse Update Manager to install plug-ins. We will use PHPEclipse as an example. We will also see how to use the Update Manager to update the plug-ins already installed as well as how to update Eclipse itself.

To access the Update Manager, go to the Help | Software Updates | Find and Install... menu option.

The Eclipse Update Manager

You will be given a choice to either update the currently installed plug-ins or search for new plug‑ins to install.