Preparing Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tool) for PHP

Heya

Now I am going to show you how to execute php using eclipse-php in
ubuntu.

Requirements:

1. Eclipse-php
2. Xampp/Lampp


Considering that you followed the official instructions of installing
Lampp inside ubuntu, (i.e. it is installed in /opt/lampp) I will be
giving the instructions.

Preparing LAMPP to be used with eclipse:

Open terminal, type sudo nautilus /opt/lampp
now, right click on the folder htdocs, go to permissions tab, and make
the following changes seen in the picture.



(lordamit is my username here)

Now, lampp is prepared for your php file savings!!

Preparing Eclipse-php to use host php files in your internal server:

open up eclipse php.
if it is opened for the first time, it will ask for workspace.

type

Code:

 /opt/lampp/htdocs

or if its workspace is set to somewhere else, change it to the previous
address. make sure it looks like this:





Now it is prepared for php creation!!

Checking if it really works:

First, start lampp. (

Code:

type sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start

in terminal

now, open a PHP project in eclipse php.
right click on it, and click on create a php file(name it Hello.php for
now ).
Now in the php file, write:

Code:



phpinfo();

?>

now, right click on Hello.php, go to run as, and click on PHP web page.
A message will pop up like this:



click ok, and if you see something like this:





you are done!!