The PHP development environment in Eclipse

The PDT project provides a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform.This project encompasses all development components necessary to develop PHP and facilitate extensibility. It leverages the existing Web Tools Platform (WTP) and Dynamic Languages Toolkit (DLTK) in providing developers with PHP capabilities.

1. Firstly download eclipse classic version

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.6-201006080911/eclipse-SDK-3.6-win32.zip

PHP Zend Framework Application Example

1. Apache configue

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName handbook-admin.myuniversity.com.au
ServerAlias http://www.handbook-admin.myuniversity.com.au
DocumentRoot /hosts/handbook-admin/htdocs

CustomLog /hosts/handbook-admin/logs/access_log combined
ErrorLog  /hosts/handbook-admin/logs/error_log

CheckSpelling On

<Directory /hosts/handbook-admin/htdocs>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

<Files ~ “\.(inc|ini)$”>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

</VirtualHost>

2.index.php

<?
require_once(“modules/trob.base/includes/includes.inc”);
require_once(“modules/trob.base/includes/admin-includes.inc”);
require_once(“modules/myuniversity.handbook/includes/includes.inc”);
Main::start(“myuniversity.handbook”);

3.project init file

modules/myuniversity.handbook/project.ini

4.TemplateEngine

Using Smarty as template engine.