PHP Development in Eclipse
I have been writing a CakePHP application and quickly realized I need something better for PHP development then Dreamweaver. I found PDT and I am amazed at the helper tools they have for PHP developers. It has auto complete, tree view to browse functions and syntax highlighting. I probably haven’t scratched the surface for its features.
I was blown away with PDT I am going to use it from now on for PHP development. I had to do one setup for PDT to recognize CakePHP’s thtml files:
- Window→Preferences
- General→Content Types→PHP Content Type
- Add in *.ctp
Thats it! I’m looking forward to better application development with Eclipse.
3 comments
Be sure to restart eclipse too in order to get it to work!
Great tip here! I’m starting to really developing with PHP in eclipse. Much better than an average text editor if you need niceties like code completion.
Nice tips. I will try this.