== Introduction to PHPEclipse ==

The PHPEclipse project is plug-in feature for the [http://www.eclipse.org/ Eclipse] development framework. Our aim is to provide [http://www.php.net PHP] developers an affordable, full featured PHP IDE with features like internal  PHP parser, debugger, code formatter, outline view, templates and much more. We have assembled documentation to help you get started with the basics of using PHPEclipse. You can also read the guides in our Howto section to learn how to accomplish other tasks using PHPEclipse. 

Our Main Concepts starts off with how to [wiki:Concepts/NewProject Create new project] using PHPEclipse. As developers we view version control as something that is vital to maintaining projects and adding the insurance, that if used properly, you can recover from many disasters. A standard installation of Eclipse provides CVS support, but you can also use third party version control plug-ins such as [http://subclipse.tigris.org/ subclipse], [http://www.polarion.org/index.php?page=overview&project=subversive subversive]. We cover how to use these tools in our [wiki:Concepts/VersionControlProject Version Control Project] guide.

With PHPEclipse 1.2.0 we have included support for [http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/ RSE]. This allows developers to work on remote projects. We also have [wiki:Concepts/RSEProject documentation] on how to use RSE with PHPEclipse. 

Some items of interest outside of the basic concepts is support for the different php debuggers. PHPEclipse currently provides debug support using either [http://xdebug.org/ XDebug] and [http://dd.cron.ru/dbg/ DBG] debuggers. We have documentation for both [wiki:Howto/XDebugAndPHPEclipse XDebug] and [wiki:Howto/DBGAndPHPEclipse DBG].