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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

At this point, we have everything we need to write PHP applications. Web application development is, in essence, a form of client/server development. By installing a fully functioning version of Apache and PHP on our machines, we have created a server environment that (hopefully) closely mirrors our environment in production. Since Eclipse is written in Java, we need a Java Virtual Machine on our systems. Using Eclipse and PHPEclipse, we can now begin writing applications for this server environment.

Later on, we will cover more advanced topics like debugging and database interaction. These chapters will require more software to be installed, and we will also walk through those installations when relevant. For now, though, we can start using Eclipse.