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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

Subclipse

Subversion is a versioning system that was created to modernize versioning needs and address some of the shortcomings of CVS. There are several key differences with Subversion and CVS. Some of the advantages Subversion has over CVS include:

  • Better speed: Subversion is a newer code base designed with the newer techniques.
  • Better features and flexibility: The repository is a database. This gives us more features and flexibility such as transactions.
  • Better handling of binary files: CVS was originally built for storing text files.
  • Better handling of directories: In CVS, keeping track of directories is not easy. Subversion addressed directory versions.
  • Better security: Subversion has better safeguards against corruption on large projects. CVS can be prone to problems on projects over 100 files in size.
  • Better integration: Subversion offers out-of-the-box integration with WebDAV to serve your repository over a web browser.
  • Reduced learning curve: Subversion works very similarly to CVS, thereby...