Eclipse Announces PHP Tool Upgrade

PDT enhancements include support for PHP's object-oriented programming features


January 23, 2009
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/database/eclipse-announces-php-tool-upgrade/212902236


The Eclipse Foundation has announced a major upgrade to the Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT) project. PDT is an open source development tool that provides all the basic code editing capabilities developers need to get started developing PHP applications. The focus of the PDT 2.0 release is to add support for the object-oriented programming features of PHP and to improve the overall user experience of the PDT environment.

To support the object-oriented features of PHP, PDT 2.0 now includes:

Usability improvements to PDT 2.0 include:

"PDT is one of our most popular downloads at Eclipse," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. "Since the initial release it has been downloaded over 1 million times. Clearly PDT adoption has been very successful in the Eclipse and PHP communities."

Andi Gutmans, co-founder of Zend Technologies, a contributor to the PDT project, added that "Release 2.0 demonstrates our continued commitment to the Eclipse community. PDT is not only the premier open source PHP development tool, but is also the basis for Zend's commercial, professional-grade IDE for PHP, Zend Studio for Eclipse. Additionally, in order to further align with Eclipse, PDT will become part of the Eclipse Galileo simultaneous release."

PDT is available for download here.

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