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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

The Eclipse Welcome Screen

When you start Eclipse 3.x for the first time, you will be greeted with the Eclipse welcome screen:

The Eclipse Welcome Screen

This page has a series of informational links to the integrated Eclipse help files. Most of these help screens are related to application development in Java or using Java to extend Eclipse. They won’t be immediately important to our needs. However, after you’ve had a little hands-on experience with Eclipse, you may find it helpful and interesting to look through some of the screens to get a better understanding of how Eclipse works:

  • Overview: This section gives a broad overview of Eclipse. It covers the Workbench, how to write Java with Eclipse, using CVS, and an introduction to plug-in development.
  • Tutorials: Four tutorials are included in Eclipse: building a Java application, building an SWT application, building a plug-in, and deploying a plug-in.
  • Samples: Some sample plug-in project files are linked from here. You will need an Internet connection...