Sunday, March 2, 2008

Easy Eclipse for PHP

Today I have finally decided to move on creating PHP projects using EasyEclipse IDE. This great tool recently was in my mind but rather I was using UltraEdit.

After installing I have one very annoying issue with opening PHP files from Eclipse navigator. When opening some file it was opened not only in Eclipse Editor, but also in my default windows Editor - Ultraedit.

After googling for about 2 hours and getting no information how to solve this I decided try to tune Windows :) And surprisingly I found a solution: all you have to do is to delete *.php extension from File Types (under Windows -> Folder Options) in order to prevent these files being opened by your default Windows Editor. In other words, you should unassociate *.php extension in your operating system so EasyEclipse for PHP will behave correctly opening only one desired file instead of two...

2 comments:

david santos said...

Hello, Antanas!
Thanks for your posting and have a good weekend

Antanas Vipartas said...

thanks for reading, David :)