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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

How to Use the Debugger

By clicking on the Debug button, we have started a debugging session. Eclipse automatically switches us to the Debug perspective. The application begins to execute, but it stops at line five because we told it to stop via a breakpoint. Our program is now frozen until we do something to advance it. Before we advance, let’s take a look around the Debug perspective, explore the views, and see how things are frozen when our program has stopped.

Debug View

The Debug view gives us a good idea of what the application is doing. Mainly it tells us what function the application is executing at that particular breakpoint:

Debug View

The Debug view organizes things from the broadest in scope to the most specific. The first line, the Project takes its name from the name of the debugging configuration. The Debug Target is the container for the threads that are running. Underneath the Debug Target are the executing threads. Since PHP is a single-threaded language, only one thread, the...