Creating Projects and Files

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

Contents:

Creating a PHP Project

 

Creating a PHP File

 

Creating a PHP Project

To create a new PHP Project:

  1. Go to File Menu and select New | PHP Project.
    -Or- In PHP Explorer view, right-click and select New | PHP Project.

  2. 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.

  3. Click Finish to complete the creation of your project.

The new project will be listed in PHP Explorer view.

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Creating a PHP File

Creating a PHP file within PDT will automatically add PHP tags to the script, and allow you to fully utilize PDT's PHP functionality.

To create a new PHP file within a project:

  1. 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.

  2. Enter the File Name and click Finish.
    An editor window will appear with the following basic PHP code:

  3. Add your code to the new file.

  4. Save the file by clicking the Save button on the toolbar.

  5. To complete your project, create more PHP files by repeating steps 1-7.

 

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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