-Installing the PHPEclipse plugin is quite straightforward :
+PHPEclipse Version 1.0.6alpha
+Copyright 2003 net.sourceforge.phpeclipse
+Contributors:
+ Klaus Hartlage
+ Matthieu Casanova
+ Le Borgne Cédric
+ David Cummings
+ Thomas Geiger
+ Rusell Wilson
+ Philippe Lachaise
+ Stefan Langer
+ and others...
+
+This Plugin is released under the Common Public License v1.0 which is included
+in this distribution or can be viewed at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html.
-- Make sure you have Eclipse 2.0 properly setup or download it from www.eclipse.org
+Look for updated versions of this plugin at http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net
-- Simply unzip the files in your eclipse plugins
- directory (<your path>\eclipse\plugins).
+ Requirements
+------------------------------------------
+Eclipse 2.x or higher (downloadable at http://www.eclipse.org)
-- (re)Start Eclipse.
-- Open the "Resource Perspective" in the Eclipse IDE and add a file with a
- *.php, *.php3 or *.php4 extension to your source tree.
- With a right mouse click on the PHP file you should see the new menu entry
- "Open With->PHP Editor".
+ Recommended
+------------------------------------------
+PHP Enviroment for running PHP code.
+PHP can be downloaded at http://www.php.net
+Server can be found at http://httpd.apache.org
+MySQL can be found at http://www.mysql.org
-- For more Information go to the menu "Help->Help Contents" and
- open the "PHPEclipse Help"
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+
+ Installation
+------------------------------------------
+Simply unzip the files to your eclipse plugins directory and (re)start eclipse.
+(<eclipse-install>/plugins/)
+
+If you copy the files manually make sure all files are located in the
+net.sourceforge.phpeclipse folder in the plugins directory in your eclipse installation.
+
+After installation the directorystructure should look as follows:
+
+|--<eclipse install>
+| |
+. plugins
+. |
+. |
+ |- net.sourceforge.phpeclipse // plugin folder
+ | |
+ . |
+ . |-- phpeclipse.jar // the plugin jar file
+ . |
+ |-- plugin.xml
+ |
+ |-- plugin.properties
+ |
+ |-- phpeclipsesrc.zip // sources for phpeclipse
+ |
+ |-- install.txt // this textfile
+ |
+ |-- cpl-v10.html // common public licence
+ |
+ |-- TODO // what's to do
+
+
+ Editing PHP
+------------------------------------------
+To start coding your php code. Simply create a new project.
+(File -> New... -> Project) And choose PHP from the left list.
+Choose PHP Project from the right and press "Next >".
+Specify a name for your project and press "Finish".
+
+The PHP Perspective should open and you can add new PHP files.
+
+- For more Information go to the menu "Help->Help Contents" and
+ open the "PHPEclipse Help"
+
+
+
+Additional Plugins for PHPEclipse
+------------------------------------------
+
+- PHPEclipse SQL Plugin
+- PHPEclipse JTidy Plugin
+
+Both can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpeclipse/