Take advantage of the leading open source integrated development environment to develop, organize, and debug your PHP web development projects. Compact guide to using Eclipse and PHPEclipse for web development
Slash development time by improving the efficiency of your PHP coding and organizing your projects in the PHPEclipse environment
Learn to use Eclipse for debugging PHP applications, interfacing with databases, and managing source code
No previous knowledge of Eclipse required
PHPEclipse brings PHP functionality to the Eclipse platform, enhancing it as an environment for developing web applications and focusing on what PHP web developers need to create an application. PHPEclipse???s development is active and its tool-set provides everything you need to write web applications in PHP.
In Detail
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 Eclipse environment. For the final step for your application, you will learn how to deploy your site to a production server.
What you will learn from this book
Finding your way around the Eclipse environment
Working with the PHP editing features of PHPEclipse to correct your PHP syntax
Configuring and using the debugger to help troubleshoot PHP code
Using PHPDocumentor to quickly create documentation for your code
Interfacing to SQL databases using the QuantumDB plug-in
Managing your source code repository from within Eclipse
Deploying your application to production servers via FTP, SFTP, WebDav
Using Ant to deploy your PHP applications
Approach
Written in a concise and friendly style, packed with tips and a practical project, this book will instruct you on using PHPEclipse to make your PHP application development more efficient, and cut development time.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for PHP developers who want an open source development environment for creating web applications. You do not need any knowledge of Java or prior experience of Eclipse to use this book.
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Author(s)
Shu-Wai Chow
Shu-Wai Chow has worked in computer programming and information technology for the past eight years. He started his career in Sacramento, California, spending four years as the webmaster for Educaid, a First Union Company and another four years at Vision Service Plan as an application developer. Through the years, he has become proficient in Java, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, LDAP, XSLT, and XSL-FO. Shu has also been the volunteer webmaster and a feline adoption counselor for several animal welfare organizations in Sacramento.
He is currently a software engineer at Antenna Software in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Born in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, Shu did most of his alleged growing up in Palo Alto, California. He studied anthropology and economics at California State University, Sacramento. He lives along the New Jersey Coast with seven very demanding cats, three birds that are too smart for their own good, a cherished Fender Stratocaster, and a beloved, saint-like girlfriend.
