-Installing the PHPEclipse plugin is quite straightforward :
+PHPEclipse Version 1.0.6alpha
+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...
-- Make sure you have Eclipse 2.0 properly setup or download it from www.eclipse.org
+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.
-- Simply unzip the files in your eclipse plugins
- directory (<your path>\eclipse\plugins).
+Look for updated versions of this plugin at http://www.phpeclipse.org -> Downloads
-- (re)Start Eclipse.
+1. Requirements
+2. Recommended
+3. Installation
+4. Editing PHP
+5. Additional Help
+6. Additional Plugins
+7. Contributing
+ 7.1 Reporting Bugs
-- 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".
-- For more Information go to the menu "Help->Help Contents" and
- open the "PHPEclipse Help"
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+
+ 1. Requirements
+------------------------------------------
+Eclipse 2.1 or higher (downloadable at http://www.eclipse.org)
+
+
+
+ 2. 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
+
+
+
+ 3. 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_x.x.x // plugin folder
+ | |
+ . |
+ . |-- phpeclipse.jar // the plugin jar file
+ . |
+ |-- plugin.xml // plugin manifest
+ |
+ |-- plugin.properties // manifest properties
+ |
+ |-- 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's to do
+
+
+ 4. 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".
+
+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"
+
+
+
+ 5. Additional Help
+------------------------------------------
+There is a help forum at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpeclipse.
+Just follow the "Forums" link.
+
+
+
+ 6. Additional Plugins for PHPEclipse
+------------------------------------------
+
+- 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.