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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

Summary

Source code control is one of the most important steps of development. It is often forgotten because it is one of the last steps and requires a bit of discipline in usage. However, like a nightly backup, you will appreciate it the most when you need it. Eclipse interfaces with two very popular versioning systems, CVS and Subversion. Eclipse acts as a client to these systems, making tasks easier and making us more likely to use version control.

In this chapter, we saw how Eclipse interfaces with CVS repositories and SVN repositories through plug-ins. We installed CVS on our local machine. CVS interfacing is given to us by the CVS Repository plug-in, which is included with the Eclipse SDK. We walked through setting up a CVS repository. In doing so, we gained a greater understanding of how versioning repositories work. We added our project to CVS and practiced updating, committing, branching, and merging.

SVN is an open source versioning system designed to address some of the shortcomings...