At this point, we have an understanding of Eclipse and how it works. We have a good sense of its features and its Java-centric quirks. We have also set up a development environment based on Apache and PHP. With this, we can now start to create a PHP web application using Eclipse. In this chapter, we will see how to set up a basic application as a project and how to use the editor for code writing. Later, we will walk through creating a whole web application from start to finish. In the process, we will explore how PHPEclipse integrates with other important Eclipse plug-ins and external PHP-related projects.
We will go deeper into our example application of the animal shelter website.