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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

Eclipse

Now it is time to actually obtain and install Eclipse. The installation process is the same for all major platforms.

Downloading Eclipse

Eclipse’s download page is at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php. This is the main download gateway page to all projects of the Eclipse Foundation, including the Eclipse Project itself. Each project has its own section on this page. The download options can be a little daunting, so we’ll explain everything.

Downloading Eclipse

The simplest and fastest way to get Eclipse up and running is to download the latest release of the Eclipse Platform SDK. To do this, simply click on the link to the Eclipse SDK version. From there, you will be taken to a list of mirrors based on geographic location. Pick a mirror close to you and click on the link. This will start the download of a zip archive of the Eclipse SDK.

You can find Eclipse downloads for other operating systems, source code, documentation, or just individual components of the platform (remember...