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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

The Quantum DB Plug-In

The Quantum DB plug-in is an open source RDBMS plug-in for Eclipse. The Quantum DB project is hosted on SourceForge at http://quantum.sourceforge.net/. This plug-in is included as part of the PHPEclipse package. You may want to check out the project site for new Quantum DB releases, since the version we have came bundled with our release version of PHPEclipse and an improved version of Quantum DB might be available.

Quantum DB uses JDBC and this allows Eclipse to become a GUI database client. Using Quantum DB’s views, you can execute SQL commands and view the results directly in Eclipse. Using the GUI tools and shortcuts, you can even do everything you need to a database without writing a single line of SQL code.

Setting Up the Environment

In order to use the Quantum DB plug-in, we will need three components:

  • A relational database system: We need a database to store the data that powers our site.
  • A JDBC driver: We will need to download and install the JDBC driver...