When you first launch Eclipse, you will be presented with this window:
The Eclipse interface comprises a specific grouping of tabs in a window. Across the top are the main toolbar and the shortcut toolbar. The main menu will either be above the main toolbar if you are on Windows and Linux or above the window title if you are on Macintosh systems.
In Eclipse, tabs are called views. A view has one specific function. A special tab that is used to edit a resource is called aneditor. Editors are used to write and edit source code.
A predefined layout of views and editors is called a perspective. Each perspective is geared towards a specific task or purpose. Java development has a perspective, debugging has a perspective, and so on. The PHPEclipse plug-in gives us a PHP perspective.
The developers of a plug-in collect all the views you need to do your tasks into a perspective. For example, the Java perspective gives us a view of all the methods in a class, a Java editor, a console, and...