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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

Updating Current Software

The process of updating installed plug-ins is similar to installing new plug-ins. The update process also uses many of the screens seen in the installation process. However, since Eclipse already knows the update location, we do not have to enter any sites. Instead, we just tell Eclipse to query the sites and compare the installed version to the latest version. To start updating, go back to the Eclipse Update Manager. This time, select Search for updates of the currently installed features on the main selection screen. Eclipse will automatically start comparing the installed software with the creators’ software. If it finds an available update, it will appear in an available updates list.

Updating Current Software

On this screen you will be able to review the plug-ins that need updates. You will also see a detailed description of each plug-in. Select the checkbox next to each plug-in you wish to update and click on the Next button.

From this point on, the process is exactly the same...