Creating Projects and Files
The
purpose of this tutorial is to guide you through the steps involved in
creating PHP Projects and files.
Contents:

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To create a new PHP Project:
Go to File Menu and select
New | PHP Project.
-Or- In PHP Explorer view, right-click and select New | PHP Project.
The New Project wizard will
open.
Enter a name for your new project into the Project Name field.
The default file system location is displayed (grayed out) in the Directory
field under Project contents. If you want to create the project and its
contained resources in a different location, clear the Use default checkbox
and specify the new location.
Click Finish to complete
the creation of your project.
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The new project will be listed in PHP Explorer view.
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Creating a PHP file within PDT will automatically
add PHP tags to the script, and allow you to fully utilize PDT's
PHP functionality.

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To create a new PHP file within a project:
In PHP Explorer view, right-click
your project and select New | PHP File -or- select your project and go
to File Menu | New | PHP File.
Enter the File Name and
click Finish.
An editor window will appear with the following basic PHP code:

Add your code to the new
file.
Save the file by clicking
the Save button on the toolbar.
To complete your project,
create more PHP files by repeating steps 1-7.
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Once you have created all your files, you can utilize
all of PDT's tools in order to
edit and debug them.
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