PHPEclipse Version 1.0.6alpha
-http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net
-
-Requirements
+Copyright 2003 net.sourceforge.phpeclipse
+http://www.phpeclipse.org
+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.
+
+Look for updated versions of this plugin at http://www.phpeclipse.org -> Downloads
+
+1. Requirements
+2. Recommended
+3. Installation
+4. Editing PHP
+5. Additional Help
+6. Additional Plugins
+7. Contributing
+ 7.1 Reporting Bugs
+
+
+
+ 1. Requirements
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-Eclipse 2.x or higher (downloadable at http://www.eclipse.org)
+Java Runtime 1.4.x or higher ( downloadable at http://java.sun.com )
+Eclipse 2.1 or higher ( downloadable at http://www.eclipse.org )
+
-Recommended
+ 2. Recommended
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PHP Enviroment for running PHP code.
PHP can be downloaded at http://www.php.net
MySQL can be found at http://www.mysql.org
-Installation
+
+ 3. Installation
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-Simply unzip the files to your eclipse directory and (re)start eclipse.
+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 like:
+After installation the directorystructure should look as follows:
|--<eclipse install>
| |
. plugins
. |
. |
- |- net.sourceforge.phpeclipse // plugin folder
+ |- net.sourceforge.phpeclipse_x.x.x // plugin folder
| |
. |
. |-- phpeclipse.jar // the plugin jar file
. |
- |-- plugin.xml
+ |-- plugin.xml // plugin manifest
|
- |-- plugin.properties
+ |-- plugin.properties // manifest properties
|
- |-- phpeclipsesrc.zip // sources for phpeclipse
+ |-- phpeclipsesrc.zip // sources for phpeclipse (if you don't need the sources you can safly delete this file)
|
|-- install.txt // this textfile
|
|-- cpl-v10.html // common public licence
|
- |-- TODO // what to do
+ |-- TODO // what's to do
-Editing PHP
+ 4. Editing PHP
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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.
+To open the PHP Perspective click Windows -> Open Perspective -> Other... and
+choose PHP from the list.
- For more Information go to the menu "Help->Help Contents" and
open the "PHPEclipse Help"
-Additional Plugins for PHPEclipse
+ 5. Additional Help
+------------------------------------------
+There is a help forum at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpeclipse.
+Just follow the "Forums" link.
+
+
+
+ 6. Additional Plugins for PHPEclipse
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-- PHPEclipse SQL Plugin
-- PHPEclipse JTidy Plugin
+- PHPEclipse SQL Plugin : Helps create SQL statements
+- PHPEclipse JTidy Plugin : Checks and cleans up HTML.
Both can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpeclipse/
+
+
+
+ 7. Contributing
+------------------------------------------
+To make PHPEclipse a usefull tool for developing PHP we need your help.
+No contribution is too small or too big!
+We need:
+ Developers
+ Documentation
+ Translation
+ Bundling
+ ...
+
+See http://phpeclipse.sourceforge.net/en/get_involved.php for more information
+on how to contribute.
+
+BUT MOST IMPORTANT we need your help to find and fix those little bugs that
+seem to creep into the code.
+
+
+ 7.1 Bug Reporting
+------------------------------------------
+Before reporting a bug make sure that you are using the latest release of
+PHPEclipse.
+
+If you find a bug see if it is allready listed in the bug database
+at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpeclipse/ -> Bugs
+If it is not listed create a new bug report. Be sure to include your system
+information (e.g. W2K Pentium 4 512 MB RAM), your Eclipse version
+(e.g. Eclipse 2.1), the version of phpeclipse you are using and a detailed
+description of the bug and how it can be reproduced.