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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

About the Debugger

Eclipse’s JDT includes a full-featured debugger for Java applications. When Eclipse debugs Java applications, it launches the Debug perspective. From there, you can see details on how your program is executing. The Debug perspective also gives you tools to manipulate your program’s execution and see the results.

PHPEclipse integrates Eclipse’s Debug perspective with a PHP debugger called PHP Debugger DBG or commonly known as DBG. DBG is a product created by Dmitri Dmitrienko. There are two versions of DBG — a commercial version and an open-source version, which supports less features but is more than sufficient for basic debugging.

DBG works as a PHP extension. It watches the PHP engine. If the engine attempts to execute a PHP script, DBG intercepts this action and watches the traffic between the engine and client. It then returns this to a DBG client.

This setup allows different clients to use DBG since DBG sits between and independent from...