Eclipse Community Forums: PHP Development Tools (PDT)

Home » Language IDEs » PHP Development Tools (PDT) » How to use PDT

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: quentusrex.gmail.com

I'm use to working with Gedit, Notepad, and vim for website design.
Someone has recommended I check out Eclipse(which I have used before for
Java application design and I enjoyed it) and also use the PDT plugin.
After setting up both, I am still left with the question:

What does PDT do? And if it does something, how do I make PDT do 'it'?

I think the documentation needs a little work on PDT's features, and
examples of how/why those features are useful.

Thanks.

Re: How to use PDT [message #70246 is a reply to message #70121]

Mon, 12 May 2008 13:03

Eclipse User

Could you be more specific? What do you find lacking?

I think that the PDT User Guide is quite helpful (available through the
"Help" menu). There are also links inside it so you can submit feedback
directly to the people writing it.
Besides the help, there is the wiki page (http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT) with
more information.

Regards,
Alon

On 12/5/08 4:48 PM, in article
96f86728ffc5a7306fcb742fbe3306d5$1@www.eclipse.org, "William"
<quentusrex@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm use to working with Gedit, Notepad, and vim for website design.
> Someone has recommended I check out Eclipse(which I have used before for
> Java application design and I enjoyed it) and also use the PDT plugin.
> After setting up both, I am still left with the question:
>
> What does PDT do? And if it does something, how do I make PDT do 'it'?
>
> I think the documentation needs a little work on PDT's features, and
> examples of how/why those features are useful.
>
> Thanks.
>

Re: How to use PDT [message #70286 is a reply to message #70246]

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:24

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: quentusrex.gmail.com

I think I've found the issue. When I entered a long php file with code
from the Drupal project, pdt didn't do anything. The outline stayed blank,
and none of the code assists did anything. I've used the user guide(which
has a lot more info than the wiki, or atleast it's a lot easier to find
info in the user guide in the help menu than in the wiki) and double
checked that the auto completion settings are accurate. But I still have
to manually press ctrl+space to get it to pop up. Same with the function
parameter hints.

I'm using Ubuntu hardy, but I downloaded eclipse 3.3 from the eclipse
website rather than use ubuntu's version.

Re: How to use PDT [message #70305 is a reply to message #70246]

Tue, 13 May 2008 02:40

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: quentusrex.gmail.com

I think the problem was that I didn't manually start a php project. I
imported a project from a svn repo, and added a php file.

How can I tell pdt that a project is a php project?

Re: How to use PDT [message #70324 is a reply to message #70305]

Tue, 13 May 2008 03:19

Eclipse User

Please refer to the following:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/FAQ#How_do_I_convert_an_existing _project_to_use_
PDT.3F

http://www.thierryb.net/pdtwiki/index.php?title=Using_PDT_:_ User_Guide_:_Ext
ernal_Tools

On 13/5/08 9:40 AM, in article
0b7e9f1d87b78a215c0b954e72f6d452$1@www.eclipse.org, "William"
<quentusrex@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the problem was that I didn't manually start a php project. I
> imported a project from a svn repo, and added a php file.
>
> How can I tell pdt that a project is a php project?
>

Previous Topic:	Passing GET parameters to debugged page
Next Topic:	Re: Biggest Eclipse bug ever about Java?

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Fri May 09 20:27:12 EDT 2025

.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Breadcrumbs

Sign up to our Newsletter