[TYPO3-ect] Eclipse Plugin Development Status

Wed Sep 19 21:04:34 CEST 2007

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:

> Well, I have been using Eclipse for a while now and was using 3.2 with
> phpEclipse until I read your post! I wasn't aware of PDT yet, and I
> thought "hm cool this sounds more "official" than that phpEclipse stuff,
> and from Zend, it cannot be bad", so I kicked the old installation and
> installed Eclipse 3.3 with PDT.

Yeah, and the best thing is that Zend Studio 6 (Neon) is going to be 
based on it!

> It looks cool, and most of it works ok, but I am a bit disappointed of
> the default syntax highlighting and editing experience. 

Maybe I can export my color settings - I've chenged them to be like 
.phps coloring.

> For example copying and pasting
> some block of code from one place to another one is now a pain in the
> a** because the editor keeps indenting the NEXT line after the pasted
> content is added. 
AFAIR this is a known issue.

 > And another thing that was nice in phpEclipse was the
> highlighting of uninitialized variables (yellow underlines), which was
> useful to find typos. 
already reported as a feature request ;-)

 > PDT doesn't seem to do that (yet? configuration?).
> Also double and single quotes are highlighted in the same color in PDT,
> while in phpEclipse I could recognize some "quoted text" which I don't
> like pretty easy (maybe just a matter of configuration)...

you can report all those things to bugzilla at eclipse.org. In fact they 
already resolved most things I  put in there...

> The whole HTML-validation stuff which is probably new as a "default" in
> 3.3 is nice, but it takes so much resources that usually Eclipse is busy
> doing some background stuff instead of letting me work. 
A knwon WTP 2.0.0 issue, should be fixed in WTP 2.0.1 coming soon 
(already in RC phase)

 > And usually
> html-templates in extensions are full of errors because they contain
> multiple subparts with multiple <body> tags, etc. I even had a case of a
> <meta charset="###CHARSET###"> or something and Eclipse was denying to
> save the file because of "wrong character set"! Pretty annoying.. :)

buuuh! spaghetti code...

> Also I saw the "Refactor" methods I knew from Java development and I
> gave it a try, but the function doesn't seem to do anything.

Neon exclusive AFAIK - they have to kaap at least soemthing back to sell 
it, right?

> Overall I like Eclipse, but I also know Eclipse from the Java
> development, and it seems that it is still a "long way to go" to reach
> that. I was more satisfied with phpEclipse, but I feel that I cannot
> stuck to that as PDT is here to stay. So if you have any tips on
> configuration, they are welcome.

Try debugging with XDebug and you'll fall in love immediately!

> I also installed Mylyr and Mantis Connector, which is what we also use
> internally, and it promises a very new approach while working. I haven't
> entirely managed to grasp what it will do to me except than displaying
> tasks and bug tracker reports, but I feel there is more behind that than
> just that. :) Needs more time exploring its possibilities...

Mylyn was built with focus on Bugzilla integration -as they work with it 
on eclipse.org.So bugzilla got the best integration. We hope to bring 
the mantis connector to bugs.t3o, too!

Ingo

P.S. In case you come to Karlsruhe I might show you something...