Intro to the Eclipse IDE and PHPEclipse Presented to KC PUG: Kansas City's PHP User Group 2006-03-18 Eric Poe

What we'll cover Eclipse Workbench PHPEclipse plugin WST (Web Standard Tools) plugin XAMPP

What is Eclipse Open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) Managed by the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. Members include IBM, Red Hat, Zend, Borland, and many others. Runs on Linux, *nix, OSX, and Windows. Written in Java Plug-in framework

Eclipse Plugin Framework Multiple languages in a project PHP Eclipse Web Standard Tools HTML Javascript CSS CDT (C/C++) Java Perl Additional Services CVS SVN (Subversion) Ant SQL Sokoban

PHP Eclipse Plugin Allows one to use Eclipse for PHP projects Includes: PHP Parser Tidy Debugger Code formatter Templates etc.

Eclipse Perspectives Perspectives show different views for different tasks. PHP Java C/C++ Debug

PHPEclipse Perspective Workbench Console Navigator Outline PHP Browser Editor

Views: Editor Context highlighting function/class squishing Code completion* *I've not seen this work well with PHP5 classes

Views: Navigator File Hierarchy Can contain multiple projects

Views: Outline Classes Variables Entities

Views: PHP Browser Work in Progress Default - uses system browser Can be changed to use other browser

Views: Console Default shows 3 tabs Problems Console Bookmarks

Plugin: Web Standard Tools WST includes: (X)HTML XML Javascript CSS Etc.

XAMPP Easy “AMP” on Linux, Solaris, OSX, or Windows Includes: Apache PHP 4 & 5 MySQL FTP server Mail server Etc.

Links of Interest Eclipse.org: http://eclipse.org/ PHP Eclipse: http://phpeclipse.de/ Eclipse Plugin Central:http://eclipseplugincentral.com/ Plog4u (PHPEclipse tutorials): http://plog4u.org/ Apache Friends (XAMPP): http://apachefriends.org/en/