Developer Guide: Setting Up Eclipse PDT

Eclipse PDT is a free, cross-platform, full-featured PHP IDE that offers class browsing, code formatting, and method completion.

Set up Eclipse PDT to work with ThinkTank

• Set indentation to spaces: In your project’s preferences panel, under PHP>Code Style>Formatter, set the “Tab Style” to spaces, and indentation size to 4.
• Add word wrap: Insane but true: Eclipse does not support word wrap natively. Use this experimental add-on to enable it. (via “Stack Overflow”http://stackoverflow.com/questions/97663/how-can-i-get-word-wrap-to-work-in-eclipse-pdt-for-php-files). Once the plugin’s installed and you’ve restarted, right-click on a file and select “Virtual word wrap” to enable it.

Useful Keyboard Shortcuts

• Ctrl+Shift+F to format your code
• Ctrl+/ to comment a block of code (hit it again to uncomment)
• Ctrl+O to hop to member
• Ctrl+L to go to line number
• More Eclipse keyboard shortcuts
• Boosting your productivity in Eclipse using shortcuts