Building WEB Services using PHP in Eclipse ____php

Learn how to use PHP to build Web services through the PHP Development Tools plug-in in the Eclipse Europa through this tutorial. Learn about the PDT project and how to create and deploy useful PHP projects, understand the rationale behind contract first (Contract-first) development, and understand the basic composition of Web Services Description Language (WSDL) files.


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This tutorial shows you how to build a Web service using PHP through the PHP Development Tools (PDT) plug-in. The PDT project was launched in September 2007 and released in January 2008 V1.0.2. The PDT project provides state-of-the-art functionality to edit, debug, and deploy PHP applications in the Eclipse IDE.

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Preliminary knowledge

You should have PHP development experience.

System Requirements

To get the most out of this tutorial, you need to install the Eclipse Europa and PDT plug-ins. In addition, you must install the Eclipse Web Standard Tools (WST) subproject. Note: If you installed the Eclipse Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (EE) package, you have installed WST.

To follow the example in the tutorial, you need Eclipse Europa and one of the operating systems supported by eclipse

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