Aptana is an Eclipse plug-in/perspective aimed at web development including support for Ajax and PHP. With Eclipsed installed, Aptana can be added by:
- Open Eclipse
- Choose Help > Software Updates > Find and Install…
- In the dialog enter 'Aptana' as the name
- URL is http://update.aptana.com/update/3.2/
- Install
- After installation restart Eclipse and choose Window > Open Perspective > Other > Aptana
The main thing I like about Aptana is the ability to manage projects with uploading/downloading and synchronisation by FTP.
- Window > Show View > Sync Manager
- Add an FTP site from within the File panel
- In the Project panel create a new project of type Aptana Web Project
- In the Sync Manager panel create a new Sync connection
- In the dialog choose Local – Project and the project you created above
- For the remote option choose the ftp site you created above
- With these 3 parts of the project defined you should now be able to upload and download files to and from the FTP site using the yellow arrows in the Project view.
- PHP support can be added from the Welcome Screen.
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