Comments on: Installing the Eclipse PHP IDE

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:16:42 +0000

Dave: Just use PDT, it’s PHPeclipse, but it actually works.

Arguements:
1. yes
2. yes
3. yes
4. yes

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:20:26 +0000

I’ve been using phpeclipse for a few years now, Love it for all of its little problems and sillyness. Before this I’d used dreamweaver ( many years ago ), then nuspheres’ PHPEd, alongside PHPEdit ( forget which was the free one, but they looked very similar ) and then finally a mate let me know about phpEclipse.

As for install “Worries” ? google phpeclipse and go to the sourceforge link. download it, extract the folders into your eclipse directory, change the eclipse version parameter in one of its files ( will have to repost the file name, i forget ), and ouala. Done. no online update server hassles, no hair pulling, dang, no cracking a sweat.

Incidentally, the file change is an annoyance, but i guess its there for some reason… not sure what. Eclipse WILL NOT RUN THE PLUGIN without making the change.

Pet peeves : I can’t get it to stop completing end brackets or quotes, and the variable completion does indeed seem to load every function known to man. And the PHPbrowser can lead to some duplicate data when trying to test code if you dont kill it.

But…. Its the absolute BEST most FLEXIBLE editor I’ve EVER seen.
arguements for other software can be met with :
-does it handle java/javascript ?
-can you collapse functions when browsing classes ?
-can you get it for linux, the mans’ operating system?
-is it free?

By: Evaro

Evaro — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:31:43 +0000

HI, i try install phpeclipse with you guide, but when install the pre-requisite: ”(WTP) this put the error : WST Server Adapters (2.0.1.v200709110637-4-0_kE77Y7TGAoAAJ) requires plug-in “org.mortbay.jetty (5.1.11)”, or compatible.

and can’t continue with install, need other pre-requisite?.
with GEM, EMF and JEF all ok.

im using linux/ubuntu 7.10 and eclipse 3.2.2 ( install from ubuntu package )

Who can resolve this problem?

tnk, Evaro

By: Dysmas

Dysmas — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:26:05 +0000

I tried PDT and I found the debugger runs out of the box if you get the all-in-one archive.
A message above asked for differences with PHPEclipse.
One difference is : with PHP Eclipse you cannot debug CLI scripts (for example PHP-GTK applications) because PHP Eclipse listens to port 10000 and the debugger speaks on standard port (7689 or something like that), and this has been changed only in the 1.1.9 version, and this unstable CVS version does not work presently with Eclipse.
With PDT I have hte debugger running fine on my PHP-GTK program.
Well, to be able to debug a PHP-GTK program I had some configuration to do, because “out of the box” PDT uses a PHP without any extension loaded, and if you want to use your PHP version, you must enable the Zend debugger in it. But this is not too difficult.

By: edw

edw — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 07:26:25 +0000

To those who want an all in one installer, just found this link, http://europa-mirror1.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/downloads/

But it still requires components that are not available in the complete package, which is 119Mb (PDT RC4).

Missing components are Java Persistent API, some stuff in Data Tools Platform, some in database development tools, JST, SDO sigh …

By: edw

edw — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:52:45 +0000

Sigh, every time I try to install PDT, error occurs, cannot find some file path … its there though, using Eclipse 3.3, what can be going wrong?

Right now using phpEclipse nightly builds, Eclipse with PHPeclipse is a much smaller install, PDT has so many dependencies.

Updating Eclipse is a huge big pain in the butt! No wonder folks on OS X use TextMate.

By: Goupil33

Goupil33 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:22:15 +0000

Hi all !

None of the two URLs given by elkhornbob works… How can I download PHP IDE ???

Thanks in advance !

Humm,

This don’t work any more:

PHP IDE
UPDATE URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/php/updates/

URL has changed to:

PHP IDE
UPDATE URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/

By: remmelt

remmelt — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:02:26 +0000

A short comparison between PHPEclipse and PDT: PHPE is the total pits. No usable code completion: it lists all the names of all the functions in your project. We have a large project, it is OOP, I don’t want the bazillion versions of getId() or something to show up on my Company object. More annoying stuff I cannot remember. We evaluated it for a job and it had show stopping missing features. If you can handle that, fine, but why would you?

PDT has good code completion that is very usable although not as smooth as Zend’s. If you like Zend, you’ll like PDT as well, they’re very similar.

If you like programming or do it for a living, steer clear of PHPEclipse.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:31:44 +0000

I’ve mixed a little bit with all those plugins, so I’ve decided to download eclipse again (3.2.2) and install full all-in-one plugins package – from the link you’ve give. Unfortunately eclipse still says that to install that PDE you should have all the GEF, EMF, JEM and WTP. Not cool :/ So once again – I’ll try step-by-step method.

By: phloidster

phloidster — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:37:57 +0000

PDT considered harmful!
Why can’t it just plain work, first time, every time, out of the box?

Yeah, I know, so many people in the ‘Eclipse Community’ pride themselves on being such capable hackers, but guess what: in the real world, not everybody has the time to follow the endlessly cyclical links on eclipse.org to try and figure out the basic simple stuff.

This should be a no-brainer:
1) download the ‘all in one’ zipfile
2) unzip it
3) it just works

BUT NO….....

I gotta ‘configure’ the perspecitves, paths, etc, and the %#@ debugger doesnt work!

This is almost enough to convert me to .NET and Visual Studio.
And I absolutely HATE Microsoft, but at least their stuff works out of the box!

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:06:39 +0000

The most frustrating thing is that even how hard you try to make debugging works in PDT, it just simply won’t no matter how easy Tom Melendez said it is.

I’ve been trying for days but to no avail. Is there any good tutorial available out there that says how to get PDT to debug let’s say a joomla website in a htdoc ?

Any help would be very much appreciated by those encountering problems with PDT like me.

By: karthick

karthick — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:28:04 +0000

Dear Venu, Many thanks for the links. Its really cool. I have the installed truestudio and it seems to be very slow or its the PC.

I have tried phpeclipse but gettting the debugger for my php latest version is difficult. Fedora 6 updates the latest PHP and I cant find the dbug yet for it. Everytime the php editor (Default) never displays the php page and hence can’t debug.

I will tryout php eclipse plugin mentioned above and let you guys know the outcome.

Best Regards

By: elkhornbob

elkhornbob — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 21:41:19 +0000

Humm,

This don’t work any more:

PHP IDE
UPDATE URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/php/updates/

URL has changed to:

PHP IDE
UPDATE URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/

By: Tom Melendez

Tom Melendez — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:12:21 +0000

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the quick reference. It certainly helped when I got into Eclipse “dependency hell”.

Installing the Zend debugger happens simply by adding the Zend PDT site to the update manager and choosing to install it:
http://downloads.zend.com/pdt

Once installed, do the following in Eclipse:
1. Choose Run -> Debug
2. Set your configuratin name, PHP CLI executable and file name (just like in PHPEclipse)
3. Press Debug and you’re off! F6 to step over, F5 to step into!

I’m using it now, seems “a little” buggy, but really, I’m quite comfortable with the Zend Studio, and this certainly has alot of the same polish that it does (makes sense, as their working on it, right?).

I should be in Atlanta on March 1st, the 1st Thursday of the month. If so, I’m coming to a meeting!

Thanks again,

Tom Melendez
Long Island PHP Users Group
http://www.liphp.org

By: Marco Moreno

Marco Moreno — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:54:18 +0000

Note that EMF update link didn’t work for me. The EMF doc page said to use this url instead:

http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/updates/site.xml

Then it worked just fine.