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Build Web services with PHP in Eclipse

Using PHP development tools for contract-first development

Nathan A. Good, Senior Information Engineer, Freelance Developer

Nathan Good lives in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Professionally, he does software development, software architecture, and systems administration. When he's not writing software, he enjoys building PCs and servers, reading about and working with new technologies, and trying to get his friends to make the move to open source software. He's written and co-written many books and articles, including Professional Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Regular Expression Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, and Foundations of PEAR: Rapid PHP Development.

Summary: Learn how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools plug-in in Eclipse Europa. Become familiar with the PDT project, and learn how to create and deploy useful PHP projects, learn about the philosophy behind contract-first development, and understand the basic parts that make up a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.

Date: 13 May 2008
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (500 KB | 26 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

About this tutorial

This tutorial shows how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in. The PDT project was unveiled in September 2007 and was followed by V1.0.2 in January 2008. The PDT project provides first-class abilities to edit, debug, and deploy PHP applications in the Eclipse IDE.

Objectives

This tutorial has three main objectives. The first is to become familiar with the PDT project, and learn how to create and deploy useful PHP projects. The second is to learn about the philosophy behind contract-first development. Third, this tutorial serves as an informative overview of the basic parts that make up a WSDL file.

Prerequisites

You should have experience with PHP development.

System requirements

To get the most out of this tutorial, you need to install Eclipse Europa and the PDT plug-in. You must also install the Eclipse Web Standard Tools (WST) subproject. Note: If you installed the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) bundle of Eclipse, you already have WST.

To follow the examples, you need Eclipse Europa and one of the operating systems that Eclipse supports — Mac OS X, Microsoft® Windows®, or Linux®. You also need a Java™ Runtime Environment (JRE) — at least JRE for Java V5 is recommended.

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