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Category Archives: Eclipse PDT
Using Eclipse PDT? Check out this wiki
Are you a huge fan of Eclipse PDT (as I apparently am)? You need to check out this Eclipse PDT Wiki. So far, a lot of cool articles. Watch for it to grow in the future!
XDebug and Eclipse PDT on Windows – From Start to Finish
XDebug and Eclipse PDT on Windows – From Start to Finish With our recent upgrade to php at “the triangle,” I felt it was time to start working on using a debugging and code profiling tool. When I say felt … Continue reading
Eclipse Testing with TPTP – help me?
I recently came across this tutorial here about Testing with TPTP- and I’m confused. Whats the benefit of this type of testing (um… creating JAVA code for a JUnit test… right?) compared to running some PHPUnit, Selenium and AB (from … Continue reading
Master the 'Run As' option in Eclipse PDT with PHP
Most of my development in Eclipse PDT with the results tested outside of it – using firefox. PDT has a few options in the Run… menu: PHP Script PHP Webpage Web Browser So, lets take some time to look into … Continue reading
Live Combined Error Reporting for Apache and PHP during Development
So many times during development, I’ve missed little PHP errors because they were 1) on a processing page that was redirected or 2) output inside of a html tag – and rendered invisible. From time to time, I have to … Continue reading
Two New useful external tools for Eclipse
In my posting about Integrating PHPDocumentor into Eclipse, I touched on External Tools a bit. The combination of external batch files, the external tools extra options and the console has made my life easier. I’m using two new additional batch … Continue reading
Eclipse Integration with Tortoise SVN
I generally don’t like to be tied to a specific IDE when developing. Additionally, I like to have my choice in using tools to manage my source control (tortoisesvn, svn command line, etc). I just think this is the open-source … Continue reading
Show the right files in PHP Explorer
After I installed Eclipse PDT, I had two project navigators. I closed the native one and kept open the PHP Explorer. PHP Explorer showed my php, css, js, etc, files. It also puts a plus sign to the left of … Continue reading
Spell Checking in Eclipse PDT
Although I’d like to pretend that my side jobs always are pure programming, but alas, not the case. There are times when the users send word docs to me and I have to convert them to html. Now, even these … Continue reading
Fixing update error in eclipse PDT
The last time I downloaded Eclipse PDT for PHP, (located at zend.com/pdt), everything was great. That is, until I wanted to run the updates. It stopped with an error and would never update my PDT. Luckily, one of the consultants … Continue reading