Developpers: Running Mambo into eclipse with no effort

 Advantages:

• Eclipse is free, eclipse has a very good plugin for PHP development: PHPeclipse.
• Eclipse is working nicely with CVS (concurent versionning system), this is a good way to version any data on your production site.(pictures, configuration files, even mysql database etc…)
• Eclipse is working nicely with ANT, a kind of make, it can help for automating deployment of your site or automating some tasks
• Debugging, css, html validation, a way to look and version your work.

Drawbacks:

• Make sense if You’re a developer or really want to version Your internet page.
• Heavy approach: need to start #Eclipse to "play" with Your Site locally
• Need to install CVS under windows (a pain)

1. Download eclipse from www.eclipse.org and install normally (it is a windows application): recommended e:\eclipse
2. Download PHPeclipse from http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpeclipse and install normally (it is a windows application)
3. Install a Java Development Kit from www.java.com recommended is jdk1.4.2_06
4. Uncompress Mambo-Eclipse-v1.0.zip (download in www.waltercedric.com in download section Mambo) on a windows drive E: recommended in E:/Mambo/
   
   

   Mambo-Eclipse-v1.0.zip contains:

   A ready to use eclipse workspace.

   Apache 1.3.33, PHP 4.3.10, MySql 4.1.9 et phpMyAdmin 2.6.1.

5. Copy my.ini into c:\windows\
6. Open the batch file startEclipseMambo.bat and change the location of jdk and eclipse binary (change accordingly what is in bold)
   E:\eclipse\bin\r3.0\eclipse.exe -vm C:\j2sdk1.4.2_06\bin\javaw.exe -data "E:\Mambo" -showlocation
7. Start eclipse by running the file startEclipseMambo.bat
8. Copy Your data:
   

   You already have a Mambo site	You do not have any Mambo site
   Copy Your entire internet page (everything under the root (/)) with FTP under E:/Mambo/httpdocs/	Copy Mambo from www.mamboserver.com and decompress zip file into E:/Mambo/httpdocs/ Start MySQL and Apache (see point 10.) Point Your browser to http://localhost/installation/ and follow instruction

9. If it is a fresh or a existing installation, in any case You must adapt the path in E:/Mambo/httpdocs/configuration.php
   

   E:/Mambo/httpdocs/configuration.php

   $mosConfig_absolute_path = ‘E:/Mambo/httpdocs/’; $mosConfig_live_site = ‘http://localhost/’; … $mosConfig_cachepath = ‘E:/Mambo/httpdocs/cache’;

10. Start MySQL and Apache by clicking on each icon in eclipse
    
11. If one of the component do no start correctly, verify the settings of PHPeclipse under the menu Windows – Preferences- PHPeclipse Web Development or look in the logs file (E:\Mambo\apache\logs\error.log)
12. Point Your browser to

• http://localhost/mysql/ for starting the phpmyadmin admin console
• http://localhost/ for your site

Contact me or post coments if You need help. Soon install CVS under Windows or Linux Suse