Mr. Schroth

Eclipse PDT (Part 2) - Creating your first project

Brandon Schroth — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:48:29 +0000

**Follow instructions from class on setting up XAMPP on your personal computer for a test development site on your machine.

To create a new project in Eclipse you must first Right Click on the PHP Explorer window and go to New > PHP Project like Figure 1.

Figure 1:

Next name your project WebPage2 when the dialog box comes up on the screen. This creates a Eclipse Project called WebPage2 where we can create our project website for php scripts. Let’s go ahead and create the default.php file to be the page that automatically loads with the XAMPP Server installed from class.

With the little that we’ve gone over in class regarding PHP, in the default.php page please print out your name and current time. Make sure that it always prints out the correct time to the page no matter what time they visit it must be in sync with the time they view the page. Check out the php manual regarding date and/or time.

Before the next class please touch up on your html (W3 Schools) skills.

Resources:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/
http://www.w3schools.com

Using Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools) Part 1

Brandon Schroth — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:21:45 +0000

*This is Part 1 in a multi-part series

Eclipse is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that is usually used for Java projects but there are plenty of plugins that have been developed to use Eclipse as a development environment for other languages. Those languages include C, C++, PHP, XML and so on and so forth.

An example of other PHP IDE’s are; Dev-PHP IDE, Zend Studio, Komodo, PHP Designer and PHPEdit.

Those are all pay for IDE’s where the Eclipse PDT is free and fairly easy to get community support if needed. The easiest download is the PDT all-in-one package that has Eclipse and all the other required plugins. As of today (05/06/2008) the latest build of the PDT all-in-on package is located here:

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/downloads/release.php?release=R20080103

where you can download the version for your OS type.

To get a quick start on using/installing Eclipse PDT check out the following YouTube Video’s:

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRFZpk-YHl4

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8WnciHjXco

Resources:

YouTube and Senior Projects

Brandon Schroth — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:04:29 +0000

Since senior projects are currently being presented to judges this week and over the past week I’ve had almost 3 dozen students stop by trying to get a video from YouTube to put on their PowerPoint. I have a couple resources that may come in handy. Although both of these websites I’m about to post don’t work 100% of the time, they are good resources none-the-less.

http://vixy.net

http://converttube.com

Once again these sites can be hit or miss but they work great when they work.