PHPEclipse: A User Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Overview of Eclipse and PHPEclipse
• Integrated Development Environments
• Advantages of Using an IDE
• Disadvantages of Using an IDE
• IDEs in Development Projects
• Eclipse
• A History of Eclipse
• IBM and OTI
• The Eclipse Foundation
• The Eclipse Architecture
• Plug-Ins
• The Workbench Plug-In
• Standard Widget Toolkit
• Why Use Eclipse?
• Eclipse is Extensible
• Eclipse is Free
• Eclipse Frees You from Vendor Lock-In
• Cross-Platform
• Professional Features
• PHPEclipse
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Installation
• Installing Apache/PHP
• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux
• Testing Apache
• Testing PHP
• Installing Java
• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux
• Testing Java
• Eclipse
• Downloading Eclipse
• Installing Eclipse
• Installing PHPEclipse
• Putting It All Together
• Summary

• Chapter 3: The Eclipse Interface
• Starting Eclipse
• The Eclipse Welcome Screen
• Perspectives
• Changing Perspectives
• Quantum DB Perspective
• Editors
• PHPEclipse Views
• Navigator View
• Working Sets
• Console View
• Problems View
• Outline View
• Bookmarks View
• PHP Browser View
• Personalizing Your Perspectives
• Customize Perspectives
• Perspective Layouts
• Save Perspective As…
• Reset Perspective
• Close Perspective
• Close All Perspectives
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Writing PHP Code with Eclipse
• Creating a Project
• Adding Directories
• Creating PHP Files
• Code Templates
• The Editor
• Editor Visual Aids
• Customizing the Editor
• Creating a Web Application
• Setting Up the Database
• Setting Up the Project
• Creating the Objects
• Creating the View Files
• Writing the Database Class
• Writing the Pet Class
• Writing the Cat Class
• Writing the View Class
• Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project
• Installing the Web Tools Platform
• Writing the View Page
• HTML Cleanup Using HTML Tidy
• Code Documentation Using phpDocumentor
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Testing and Debugging
• About the Debugger
• Installing the Debugger
• Installing DBG
• Precompiled Binary Instructions
• Compiling DBG Yourself
• Configuring php.ini to Use DBG
• Testing Your PHP Installation
• Configuring Eclipse as the Debugger Client
• Specifying an Interpreter
• Creating a Debugging Configuration
• Troubleshooting Tips
• How to Use the Debugger
• Debug View
• Variables View
• Breakpoints View
• Console, Editor, Outline, and PHP Browser
• Navigating Through a Debugging Session
• Debugging Strategies
• Working with Variables
• Debugging Arrays
• Debugging Objects
• Changing Variable Values
• Forms, Cookies, Session, and Server Variables
• Watching Variables
• Run
• XDebug
• Installing XDebug
• Windows Installation
• Mac OS X/Linux Installation
• Configure php.ini
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Using the Quantum DB Plug-In
• Relational Databases
• JDBC
• The Quantum DB Plug-In
• Setting Up the Environment
• The Development Database
• Downloading and Installing the MySQL JDBC Driver
• Using the Quantum DB Plug-In
• Setting Up a Database in Quantum DB
• Using a Database in Quantum DB
• Writing SQL Statements
• Working with the Quantum Table View Result Sets
• Quantum DB Shortcuts
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Version Control
• Version Control Overview
• Terms and Concepts
• Installing and Setting Up CVS
• Windows Installation
• Macintosh Installation
• Linux Installation
• Macintosh and Linux Configuration
• The CVS Repository Perspective
• Adding a Repository
• Adding a Project to CVS
• Committing and Updating
• CVS Annotate View
• CVS Resource History
• Tagging
• Branching
• Merging
• Subclipse
• Viewing a Subversion Project
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Deploying Your Site
• Setting Up a Test FTP Server
• Windows
• Macintosh
• Linux
• FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV Export
• Using Ant for Deployment
• Setting up Ant for FTP
• Downloading
• Installing
• Adding Files to the Ant Classpath
• Creating Our Sample Ant Build File
• Running an Ant Script
• Ant Tools
• Summary

• Appendix A: Plug-ins and Plug-in Sites
• Community Sites
• Notable Language Plug-ins

• Appendix B: The Eclipse Update Manager
• Installing New Plug-Ins
• Installing PHPEclipse
• Updating Current Software

• Index