Eclipse PDT setup for Drupal Developement with SVN

Submitted by scothiam on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 18:16

Eclipse for Drupal Development

There are lots of posts on getting Eclipse setup for Drupal development, I'm just providing the links to the ones I found, found most helpful, and some notes on things that have changed in those articles or points that I found to be different.

Start with: http://blip.tv/file/3253369 A great video that walks you through setting up Eclipse PDT on Os X... I noticed that in the video, Eclipse is version "Galileo", whereas I've used "Helios". This probably accounts for some of the discrepancies.

NOTES:

- get the Drupal Templates here http://drupal.org/project/eclipse follow the instructions in the README.txt file

- When setting up MAMP for debugging, use the php folder names that you see. in the video they use ‘php5’ while on my install I've chosen ‘php5.2’

- in MAMP preferences, make sure php is turned to 5.2 and not 5.3 (or choose 5.3 above)

- in MAMP preferences, turn off XCACHE

- use this code in your php.ini file, the last line in my file looked like this

;zend_extension=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.2/zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so

- replace that with >

; uncommented for use with Eclipse

zend_extension=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.2/zend/lib/ZendExtensionManager.so

; make sure to go to MAMP PHP preferences and disable XCache

zend_extension_manager.debug_server=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5.2/zend/lib/ZendDebugger-5.2.15

zend_debugger.allow_hosts=127.0.0.1

zend_debugger.expose_remotely=always

I found these videos helpful as well:

PHP Tutorial: Using Eclipse+PDT as a PHP IDE:

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

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8WnciHjXco&NR=1

SVN

in Eclipse, go to ‘help->install new software’

- in the ‘work with’ field type in "http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x" (version 1.6 is the newest as of this writing)

- select all three options (Core SVNKit Library, Optional JNA LIbrary, and Sublipse)

- agree to any agreements and continue

- Eclipse will want to restart, go ahead

NOTE: this helps get past some of the errors I was experiencing…"In preferences, under Team..SVN I wold change the ‘SVN interface’ client to ‘SVNKit’, this is not selected by default but I cannot get SVN to work with the default client." from http://www.mediacurrent.com/blogs/and-running-eclipse-drupal-development

If you are still unable to connect with SVN-

Get the file which corresponds to your OS at http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/community/