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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

PHPEclipse Views

From a GUI standpoint, views are the individual tabs seen in the Workbench. Functionally, views offer information and resources taken from external and local systems relevant to the developer. In other words, if you need information to develop an application, a view interfaces with these entities to provide you with that information. If you need information from your local file system, an FTP server, a database, or even the application itself, this information is grabbed and presented by a view.

The various plug-ins installed by the Eclipse Platform give us many views for Java development. We will, however, concentrate only on the views from the PHP perspective. Similar to the perspectives, you can manually show all available views using the Window | Show View | Other... menu option. This will open the Show View window:

PHPEclipse Views

Click a desired view and click the OK button to open the view. This window shows which plug‑in belongs to which view.

Navigator View

The Navigator view...