PHP
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language geared toward web development. It was originally created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1993 and released in 1995. The PHP reference implementation is now produced by The PHP Group ...
Development Tools (PDT) is a language IDE plugin for the
Eclipse platform and the
open-source
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project that develops it.
The project intends to encompass all tools necessary to develop PHP based software. It uses the existing Eclipse Web Tools Project to provide developers with PHP capabilities. All these PHP tools are easy to use and developers can speed up the development process by using these tools. Additional plugins are available as
PDT Extensions
PDT may refer to:
Computing
* PHP Development Tools, an IDE plugin for the Eclipse platform
* PDT Standard Police Digital Trunking, China's police wireless communications standard
* Portable data terminal, an electronic device that is used to en ...
.
Key features
PHP editor
* Syntax Highlighting
* Content Assist
* Code Formatter
* Refactoring
* Code Templates
Easy and powerful code navigation
Debugging and profiling
* Zend Debugger
* Xdebug
Syntax validation
Primary modules
*Core —
parser
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, search
algorithm
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, communication and more
*Debug — protocols, messages, executable and
web server
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*User Interface — editor, views, preferences and
wizards
*Formatter — advanced code formatter
*Refactoring — PHP refactoring support
*PHPUnit —
PHPUnit Support
*Composer —
Composer
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Etymology and Defi ...
Support
*Profiler — Xdebug and Zend Debugger profiling support
Project timeline
The project officially began around March 8, 2006. By the end of 2006, the project was approaching the 0.7 release. On April 6, 2007, 0.7 RC3 was released as the final 0.7 version.
In the latter half of 2007, a series of 1.0 milestones were reached, and on September 18, 2007, PDT 1.0 Final was released.
Naming issues
The PHP Development Tools project has had two names during its development. It was initially named PHP Development Tools, then changed to PHP IDE, and reverted to PHP Development Tools on January 1, 2007. Various documentation and reviews use either name.
Zend Technologies contributions
Significant PDT development is being done by Zend Technologies. Zend sells a competing product named
Zend Studio
Zend Studio is a commercial, proprietary integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP developed by Zend Technologies, based on the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plugin for the Eclipse platform (the PDT project is led by Zend).
Zend Studio is t ...
. PDT, as free software, may cannibalize sales of Zend Studio although the latter has more features. Others contend that PDT is deliberately maintained as a "lite" version of Zend Studio.
References
External links
PHP Development Tools project page
Eclipse (software)
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