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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

Installing Java

Since Eclipse is a Java application, we will need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). You may already have a runtime environment, especially if you have installed the Java Development Kit (JDK). If you have a JRE or the JDK, you can skip this section.

The runtime environment is the engine that allows you to run Java applications. The JDK includes the runtime environment and has tools that let you create and compile Java programs. Even if you do not program in Java right now, as a developer, you should install the JDK. You may want to program in Java or JSP down the road. The instructions below will guide you on how to download the JDK.

Windows

You can download the official JDK at http://java.sun.com/j2se/corejava/index.jsp. Click on the link for the latest version and follow the links to download the JDK for your platform. The site also maintains a list of popular downloads in the right navigation bar. The list includes a direct link to the latest JDK download pages. You need...