Programming with Eclipse

Re: Programming with Eclipse

by Dean Leggo -
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Thank you to everyone for the help. smile

I was following the instructions on the Moodle docs. Setting up Eclipse. Because I was not 100% sure on the programs they offered I went to the Eclipse Marketplace, searched 'php' and it gave me 68 results!

 

The whole Setting up Eclipse needs to be re-done.

  • Installing plugins need to change to PDT
  • General and PHP Settings is for PHPeclipse
  • SSH2, CVS Settings and Checking out code has changed to Git

I'll firstly learn how Git works before I try to add it to Eclipse. Branches everywhere tongueout

I'll try re-writing the 'Installing plugins' section tomorrow. I don't know enough to write anything else.

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Re: Programming with Eclipse

by Joseph Rézeau -
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Hi Dean,

I've been using ECLIPSE for quite a few years now and find it quite user-friendly for developing PHP projects (local host under Windows). When Moodle was updatable through its CVS repository, I used to do my updates from within the ECLIPSE environment.

Now that Moodle has switched to a GITHUB repository, I no longer do my Moodle updates from ECLIPSE, because as far as I understand there is no stable GIT plugin available in ECLIPSE. Or there wasn't one last time I tried.

Joseph

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Re: Programming with Eclipse

by David Bezemer -

An official plugin has already been released for Eclipse, available at http://www.eclipse.org/egit/

developed by GitHub and various other Eclipse pro's I havent had any issues with this plugin

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Re: Programming with Eclipse

by Michael Aherne -
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You're right about that page. It used to be an extremely useful resource, but it has become quite out of date. I'd be happy to help to try to update it.

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Re: Programming with Eclipse

by Marcus Green -
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I prefer Netbeans to eclipse but I find that xdebug is wildly less stable under Netbeans. This appears to be true for both Windows and Ubuntu Linux.

MG

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Re: Programming with Eclipse

by Ankit Agarwal -

For git I normally use terminal, there is something called Egit for eclipse, but I prefer a terminal instead. If you want you can integrate a terminal window with your eclipse, by installing something called a "local terminal" plugin.

There are quite a few settings that you might need to tweak to get your editor ready (for example replace spaces instead of tabs for indenting lines) etc.  But personally I use Eclipse, and never had any issues with it.

I will also recomend increasing the default memory limits which are very low with most editors.

Thanks

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