Eclipse PDT 2.0 is available

The PDT project is working towards providing a PHP Development Environment framework. This project was formerly known as PHP IDE.

• see PDT 2.0 New & Noteworthy
• see the eclipse PDT WIKI

Make Eclipse PDT work for Joomla development

Install a PHP debugger

In order to be able to perform debugging using eclipse PDT, you must download one of the following extra packages:  XDEBUG or ZEND debugger. I was not able to get the debugger running with XDEBUG even after reading many tutorials and trial error approach. Both packages are free, and it has work nicely for me with ZEND debugger after 5 minutes...

Unfortunately, XDEBUG/ZEND can not be packaged with PDT due to license restrictions, so both tools are not just running out of the box without few efforts.

PDT and Zend Debugger

Download

PDT + Zend in one package thanks to Zend.com (118MB), highly recommended

• Download all-in-one for Linux
• Download all-in-one for Windows
• Download all-in-one for MacOS

OR PDT (105MB) and add Zend debugger through software update later

• Open Eclipse and go to Help-> Software Updates-> Find and Install
• Select "Search for new features to install" and click "Next"
• Create a New Remote Site with the following details:
• Name: PDT
• URL: http://downloads.zend.com/pdt
• Check the PDT box and click "Next" to start the installation

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