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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

Personalizing Your Perspectives

Eclipse’s architecture is designed to be highly adaptable to your needs. This philosophy carries over to the interface. In the Windows menu, Eclipse offers several ways to change perspectives to suit how you work. These various options allow you to change menu items, toolbar items, and which views are associated with which perspectives, and to create new perspectives.

Customize Perspectives

Your menu options and toolbar icons can be changed in Customize Perspectives. These changes affect the perspective currently being used. They are not universal.

Customize Perspectives

This view allows you to make items available in the File | New menu, the Window | Open Perspective menu, and the Window | Show view menu. You may have noticed that the default setting for those three menus is a bit skimpy. For example, when you create a new document in the PHP perspective, the only shortcut available is PHP File. Similarly, in Open Perspective, the only option available is Other...

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