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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

Chapter 7. Version Control

The question of how to manage your source code will inevitably come up while working on any project. A lot of times, using a simple file server would be enough. However, using formal version control software has many benefits. In this chapter, we’ll explore some of those benefits and see how to leverage them using Eclipse and two popular version control systems —CVS and Subversion.

First, let us address a small issue with terminology. You’ll encounter many generic terms that describe a software package that stores and keeps track of source code — version tracking system, versioning software, version control system, control versioning system, etc. Since the letters often include C, V, and S, the acronym CVS is often used to refer to a generic software package. However, CVS is one of the most popular versioning systems. Its acronym stands for Concurrent Versioning System. People sometimes use these terms interchangeably, but...