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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

What You Need for This Book

To get all you can out of this book, you should have a computer running Mac OS X, Linux or UNIX with X, or Microsoft Windows 2000 or greater. From a hardware standpoint, Eclipse likes more of everything.

You should also have privileges to install system and server software on the machine. What follows is a list of software we will be installing:

Server Software

  • Apache
  • PHP
  • MySQL (optional)
  • JDBC (optional)
  • DBG Debugger (optional)
  • CVS (optional)

Workstation Software

  • Java
  • Eclipse
  • PHPEclipse