1. Kirkwood Center for Continuing Education Introduction to PHP and MySQL By Fred McClurg, frmcclurg@gmail.com Copyright © 2010 All Rights Reserved.

2. Supplemental Eclipse http://webcert.kirkwood.edu/~fmcclurg /courses/php/slides/eclipse.ppt

3. Defined: Eclipse is an open source, software development environment. It is similar to other Integrated Development Environments (IDE) like VisualStudio, except Eclipse is programming language and vendor independent. Additional functionality is available via Eclipse plugins. Home Page: http://www.eclipse.org What is Eclipse? 3

4. Eclipse bundles a number of plugins that are specifically designed for software development using PHP (and other languages): Eclipse Downloads: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ Using Eclipse for PHP Development 4