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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

Installing and Setting Up CVS

If you need a CVS server to use with Eclipse, follow these instructions. The goal of these instructions is to install and configure a CVS server as quickly as possible. The way this is accomplished varies by operating system. There is a difference in the actual CVS software package and slight variation in the connection method used. This is because we are going to leverage the software already installed on some systems and configuration shortcuts available on others. Regardless of which method you use, please note that we are taking some liberties with respect to best practices and security. These directions are only to be used in a development and learning environment, and not a production environment. If you are setting up a CVS server for actual production use, first and foremost, do not run it on a local workstation, and second, use a dedicated CVS book to help you with configuration and installation.

Windows Installation

CVS has been modified into a free...