# <? PHPeclipse ?>

The PHPeclipse project aims to create a full featured PHP IDE with PHP, PHP Debugger, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and SQL support.
You can find the homepage at: www.phpeclipse.de
The current version of PHPeclipse can be downloaded from the Sourceforge Project Page.

## Installation:

Installing the PHPeclipse plugin is quite straightforward :

1. Make sure you have Eclipse 3.0 properly setup or download it from here.
2. Simply unzip the files in your eclipse plugins directory (<your path>\eclipse\plugins).
3. (re)Start Eclipse.
4. Open the “Resource Perspective” and add a file with a php, php3, php4, php5 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”.

## Currently Supported Features:

- Syntax Highlighting (*.php, *.php3, *.php4 file extensions).
- Outline shows the sorted PHP function names (no class names at the moment) of the current editor
- Calls via Java's Runtime.exec() to MySQL/Apache are configurable through a Preference Page.
- Calls via Java's Runtime.exec() to an external Browser are configurable through a Preference Page.
- The Documentroot for Apache is configurable to the current workspace through the Preference Page.
- The Menu to start MySQL/Apache could be activated in the menu “Window->Customize Perspective...”.
- The external browser will be launched through a right mouse klick in the “Resource Perspective” on a PHP file in the navigator tree (file extensions php,php3 and php4) and choosing the menu “Open PHP Browser”.
- The PHP Help is integrated in the menu “Help->Help Contents”. Note:You can add or exchange this help files with other files from http://php.net/download-docs.php, if you modify the doc.zip file in your PHPeclipse plugins home directory.
- The context help for PHP functions could be called with a right mouse click on a function name and choosing the menu “PHP Help”

## Notes:

- You reach the Preference Page through the “Window->Preferences” menu. In the left tree click on the “PHPeclipse Web Development” entry to modify your settings.
- You reach the Customize Perspective through the “Window->Customize Perspective...” menu. In the left tree click on the “Other” entry and activate the “PHP/Apache” checkbox.