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The PDT project provides a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses all development components necessary to develop PHP and facilitate extensibility. It leverages the existing Web Tools Project in providing developers with PHP capabilities...

Project Principles:

• Intuitive and easy to learn


• Seamless integration with the Web Tools project


• Adherence to Eclipse standards


• Extensibility


• Continuous support of PHP developments

PDT Project Website

I recommend you to download a stable build (1.0.3 Stable Build, 2008-09-04):

http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/downloads/

To use the Eclipse PDT Project you need also a Java Virtual Machine or Java Developer Kit(JDK 6 Update 7, 2008-09-04).

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

After installing the JDK you can unzip the PDT and run it. But wait!
If you want to develop PHP in a modern way UTF-8 is the right text file encoding.

What is UTF-8?

UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is able to represent any character in the Unicode standard, yet the initial encoding of byte codes and character assignments for UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII. For these reasons, it is steadily becoming the preferred encoding for e-mail, web pages, and other places where characters are stored or streamed.

UTF-8 encodes each character in one to four octets (8-bit bytes):
1. One byte is needed to encode the 128 US-ASCII characters (Unicode range U+0000 to U+007F).
2. Two bytes are needed for Latin letters with diacritics and for characters from Greek, Cyrillic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac and Thaana alphabets (Unicode range U+0080 to U+07FF).
3. Three bytes are needed for the rest of the Basic Multilingual Plane (which contains virtually all characters in common use).
4. Four bytes are needed for characters in the other planes of Unicode, which are rarely used in practice.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utf-8

1. Window->Preferences
2. General->Workspace
3. Text file encoding->Other: UTF-8

You also need the text file encoding UTF-8 here: HTML, CSS and XML.

1. Window->Preferences
2. Web and XML
3. CSS Files
4. HTML Files->Templates->XHTML transitional (Remove the first line with XML...)
5. XML Files

Oops - there is my German

lang="de"

- remove this part!

Well, done! Now you are ready for UTF-8

All you need to generate a memorable domain name is a mix between experience, fun and brainwork.



1. Experience

A person with considerable experience in a certain field can gain a reputation as an expert. As an expert you know the essential tricks of your favorite hobby or business. So you know the jargon. If you are a soccer fan, you have some favorite soccer club. In the most cases it is the nearest one to you.
I was born in Nuremberg and lived several years there. So I visited very often the Frankenstadion - the stadium of the premium soccer club of Nuremberg (1. FC Nürnberg). I could build a fan web site of my favorite team. My Domain Name Search starts with searching for relevant keywords like soccer, fan, nuremberg, franconia, bavaria, bundesliga (German equivalent to the Premier League in England) etc. in search engines. Visiting existing fan and competitors websites is another method to get a knowledge for the right Domain Name. But wait: Although your web project is a virtual place, visit the soccer club stadium offline. Talk to other fans and learn from their jargon. Repetitio est mater studiorum! Repeat your online research for the right Domain Name.

2. Fun

I am a fan of German airships. Graf Ferdinand Zeppelin built the airship zeppelin and my business are domains. So I decided zeppelindomains.com is the right domain name.
Yahoo, Google, etc. are funny names. This is another option to choose a Domain Name. Be different! Further more you can play with the endings of the country code top-level domain. In Germany we have lots of words ending with us. So I registered the domain name pflaumenm.us. Pflaumenmus is the German word for plum jam or plum butter.

3. Every man is the architect of his own fortune!

It`s certainly difficult to narrow down the long, long list of factors that can affect a domain name`s value. If you are able to channel your bitterness into action, you will probably quickly generate a memorable and profitable domain name. Give it a chance! Word gimmicks are really funny and important in the Domain Name Business. To get attention, it is a good idea to register different domain names to the same topic or business.

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This tutorial is for anyone who needs a web front-end and back-end or is looking to add data to a site.
Part 1 of my tutorial is dedicated to the open source tools.

For my tutorial I use this free open source tools:

1. Eclipse PDT Project (Development Environment) and Java Runtime Environment
2. XAMPP - Apache,PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin
3. DIA - Entity Relationship Diagram
4. DBDesigner4 - Relationship Database Model
5. Notepad++ - XHTML and CSS Editor
6. Gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
7. FileZilla - File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Client
8. Firefox Add Ons

1. Eclipse PDT Project and Java Runtime Environment

Before you can use Eclipse PDT Project, you need a Java Runtime Environment.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp



Choose the latest Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and click download. Select your Platform and select your Language.



After Download install the JRE and unzip your Eclipse PDT Project.

The PDT project provides a PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform. This project encompasses all development components necessary to develop PHP and facilitate extensibility. It leverages the existing Web Tools Project in providing developers with PHP capabilities.

On this page you can find the latest builds for the PDT project:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/downloads/

2. XAMPP - Apache Friends



XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html

Apache Friends is a non-profit project to promote the Apache web server. It was founded in the spring of 2002 by Kai 'Oswald' Seidler and Kay Vogelgesang. The following activities are our contribution towards promoting the web server and related technologies:

Pro:
1. Easy to use software
2. Easy to read documentation (Sorry, all texts apart from the FAQ are only available in German)
3. The creation of an online community for helping each other out should any questions or problems arise

Go to http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html and select your Operating System (OS):



Visit the Source Forge Download Page:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61776

3. DIA

Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux, Unix and Windows released under the GPL license.
http://live.gnome.org/Dia

Source Forge Download for Windows:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dia-installer/dia-setup-0.96.1-8.exe

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4. DBDesigner4

DBDesigner 4 is developed and optimized for the open source MySQL-Database to support MySQL users with a powerful and free available design tool.

http://www.fabforce.net/


http://www.fabforce.net/downloads.php

5. Notepad++ XHTML and CSS Editor

Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. It runs in the MS Windows environment.

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

6. Gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.



http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

7. FileZilla - File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Client

FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

http://filezilla-project.org/

8. Firefox Add Ons

Before you can use the Add-ons you need the Firefox 3 Browser.

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/

Add-Ons: Web Developer, ColorZilla, MeasureIt, IE Tab

Well, done. In part 2 of my tutorial we will create a simple logo with Gimp and a XHTML-Page and CSS-Layout with Notepadd++.

And they all lived happily ever after...