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Category Archives: Eclipse PDT

How to Add PHPUnit to your Include Path (for autocompletion) in Eclipse PDT

By default, PHPUnit is not part of the default installation of Eclipse PDT. (Zend Studio is another beast, however…) It’s easy to add the PHPUnit install to your include path however. Make sure that the PHPUnit install is the same … Continue reading

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Running PHPUnit on Remote System from Command Line

If I need to run PHPUnit on a remote system against a code suite, I will write a simple shell script like the following to do it for me. (Bonus points, you can even include this as an External Tool … Continue reading

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Remove .svn folders from Eclipse Project Explorer

It had been irritating to me seeing the .svn folders littered throughout my project workspace. In addition, they all show up in the search results… this can be irritating with the svn-base files that show the old version of the … Continue reading

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Count lines of code in Eclipse

When searching for how to count the lines of code I had in my project, I ran into this blog entry. While its a good start, it still gave me some inaccurate counts. I was getting inflated counts because of … Continue reading

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Change the @author tag default in Eclipse PDT

When creating a docblock in Eclipse PDT, if commenting is enabled, a template is inserted. This template references the $user variable which is usually set to whichever user you are logged into your machine with. You can change this variable … Continue reading

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Exploring MySQL in Eclipse PDT

As you probably know by now, I’m a huge fan of Eclipse PDT. Well, I wanted to stop using MySQL GUI tools for a bit and explore Eclipse tools. Get the SQL Explorer Plugin The first thing to do is … Continue reading

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Eclipse PDT2 won't jump to functions/classes on ctrl-click: solved

I am using the new PDT2 based off of Eclipse 3.4. The one thing I noticed as an issue for me was the building. I created a project based off of a checkout using SVN. After I had built the … Continue reading

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Eclipse PDT: Integrating Apache Bench for load testing

When I use an IDE, I expect for it to do everything I need for my project, from start to finish. As you may have read in earlier entries, I enjoy using Eclipse PDT. I think its time to include … Continue reading

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Eclipse PDT – Include Paths

When troubleshooting a different problem the other day, I re-entered the world of eclipse include paths. For those of you who are not familiar, the eclipse include path is located as the last option of a eclipse PDT PHP project. … Continue reading

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Useful Eclipse Plugin: Find a file name in project immediately

Unfortunately, at #superdev, there are times when the include_path in PHP is calculated. It is not always clear where to find a file. Other times there are just too many places to find the file. Because of this – and … Continue reading

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