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.

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 to a production server.

Features include : debugging, using PHPDocumentor, the QuantumDB plug-in, managing your source code repository, deployment using FTP, SFTP, WebDav and Ant.
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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 the Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals. 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.