Eclipse is one of the most popular editors used for development. The support of its huge community and of a number of companies made Eclipse to a very powerful IDE. This Hands-on session shows how to extend Eclipse with needful Plug-ins (e.g. Aptana) to enable it for PHP and Web development. It also highlights the usage of the possibility to integrate external tools and project templates.

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Eclipse Hands On to PHP development
Using external tools
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Who am I ?
Name: Bastian Feder
Age: 31 years
PHP: since 2002
Current occupation:
Techncal lead and the customer care
and the design and development of
process oriented intranet
applications written in PHP and
Perl.
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Agenda
 What is the ‚external tools‘ framework ?
 How do I add external tools ?
 Examples
– phpDocumentor
– phpBeautifier
 References
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What is the ‚external tools‘ framework ?
 Enables Eclipse to run ‚stand-alone‘ applications
 Two broad classes of external tools are available
– Ant build files
– Everything else
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How do I add external tools ? (1/2)
 Open external tools dialog from the ‚Run‘ menu
 Double click on ‚Program‘
 The new configuration section appears on the right
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How do I add external tools ? (2/2)
 Tabs
– Main
– Refresh
– Environment
– Common
 Enter
– Name (e.g.; phpbeautify file)
– Location (path to the PHP interprter)
– Arguments (what to be done)
 Variables
– ${resource_loc}
– ${project_loc}
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Example
 Live demonstration
– phpDocumentor
– phpBeautifier
(see: http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Using_PHPEclipse)
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References
 Eclipse Tutorials
– http://www.plog4u.org/index.php/Using_PHPEclipse
 PHP Development Project (PDT)
– http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/
 Aptana
– http://www.aptana.com/
 JSEclipse
– http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/Eclipse/JSEclipse/Overview/
 phpDocumentor
– http://pear.php.net/package/PhpDocumentor
 phpBeautifier
– http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Beautifier
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? Bastian.Feder@de.ibm.com
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