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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

Setting Up a Test FTP Server

A server running FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV processes is a fairly common thing. However, if you do not have a server available for experimentation with Eclipse, you can easily set up these services. However, as of Eclipse 3.0/3.1, these clients do not work when connecting to a local server. You will have to set up a second machine on your local network to run these services. To help you, we will touch on how to quickly set up an FTP server.

Again, a word of caution — these instructions are designed to give us a crude but effective file server. It will neither be very secure nor optimized for performance. If you need a production FTP server, consult other resources on configuring your machine and security best practices.

To start off, decide on an upload area. This directory could be anywhere, but be sure you have read and write permissions to that directory.

Windows

On the Windows platform, you can place a copy of the XAMPP package on your server. XAMPP includes...