Drupal Development with Eclipse

Do you use vim or emacs (or any other text editor) for editing your PHP files?

Is echo/print_r/var_dump how you debug?

Does http://api.drupal.org and http://php.net/manual top your list of web sites most frequently visited?

There is a better way.

In this session you will learn:

How to use Eclipse to help you develop faster and easier!

I'll talk about things that slow you down, and how Eclipse solves those issues to boost your productivity.

Intended Audience:

This talk will be for the developers out there that are editing code: developing modules, custom themes, etc.

Day:

Sunday

Room:

Ninthlink Room

Time:

Sun, 2010-01-24 14:00

Comments

Mon, 2010-01-25 10:51 — rich.yumul

One of the things that I

One of the things that I forgot to mention is that you need to configure the PHP editor to work with the Drupal file extensions in Eclipse: *.module *.info, etc.

Check out Chris's module above. It does all that and is pretty simple to install.

Sun, 2010-01-24 14:34 — SoCalCreations

Good Article on Installing

Good Article on Installing and configuring Eclipse for Drupal
http://drupal.org/node/75242

In general, you need to make sure that your Eclipse environment will:
* adhere to Drupal coding standards,
* use syntax highlighting (very, very helpful in any coding language!)
* recognize Drupal files as PHP code,
* make sure that spaces are used instead of tabs, and
* make sure that the files have the right encoding (Unix) so they can be committed to the Drupal CVS repository.

In addition, there are plug-ins and packages that can help you with CVS, debugging (remote), and lots more.

Sun, 2010-01-24 14:28 — SoCalCreations