Installing Eclipse with PHP support
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Last updated: Cuenca, 8 Dec 2008
To setup a local PHP development environment:
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1. Download the PDT Eclipse package and LPG package. For the LPG
package, I suggest downloading the current PDT package and
looking in the <eclipse_install_dir>\eclipse\readme\ directory for the DTP
readme file. Mine was named: DTP-README.txt. It should contain
(the current) directions for finding and installing the LPG
package.
The versions I used were:
pdt-all-in-one-win32-1.0.3.zip
lpgdistribution-05-16-06.zip
2. a. Unzip the Eclipse zip file to wherever you want to keep it.
b. Then find and install the LPG package (per the instructions
in your <eclipse_install_dir>\eclipse\readme\DTP-README.txt file).
c. Double-click on your <eclipse_install_dir>\eclipse\eclipse.exe
- On starting up, specify a workspace location.
- Go to the workbench (the button all the way over on the
right of the Eclipse startup page).
- To create a PHP Project for your website (I'm going to use
mine for this example, svbreakaway):
. File | New | Other | PHP | PHP Project
. Project name: svbreakaway
. which should create a project by that name:
. Right-click on the project name, then
Import | General | File System | Next >
. For From directory, navigate to your website's
directory in the Apache htdocs directory. E.g.
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\svbreakaway
This should populate the 2 panels with a list of the
contents of the directory.
. Click on Select All which should flip on all the
checkboxes:
. Click on Finish.
. This should populate the list under the project name:
. To tell Eclipse about the Apache server,
File | New | Server | Server | Next >
On the next page (Define a New Server),
Server name: localhost
Basic | HTTP Server
And on the next page (HTTP Server),
Name: HTTP Server
Publishing directory: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\svbreakaway
. Right-click on the project name, then
Run as | Open Run Dialog
Then on the next page (Create, manage, and run
configurations)
PHP Web Page
Then,
and click Run.
. This opens an Eclipse Browser view of the website: