Using eclipse: Referencing joomla from a separate project

[TDZWeb]

When I edit code inside the joomla project in eclipse the code completion works great. It even takes into account jimport which gives me a lot of useful inline documentation and code suggestions.

However, when developing a component it is more practical to use the installer package file structure. Is there a way to reference the joomla application from another project so that I get the same benefits? Are there other developinig strategies that will give me what I need?

[Imanol Pérez Iriarte]

Hi,

My coding strategy is to have 2 projects. One with the package installer structure and other for testing with a full joomla installation. Then every time I build the project I launch a phing (phing is "php version" of ant) script that copies the modified files from one folder to the other.

There's a good tutorial about that here http://docs.joomla.org/Extension_development_using_eclipse_and_phing

2012/7/27 TDZWeb <webm...@tdzwebdesign.no>

When I edit code inside the joomla project in eclipse the code completion works great. It even takes into account jimport which gives me a lot of useful inline documentation and code suggestions.

However, when developing a component it is more practical to use the installer package file structure. Is there a way to reference the joomla application from another project so that I get the same benefits? Are there other developinig strategies that will give me what I need?

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[Thomas PAPIN]

Open the properties of your projet, in the php include path,under "project " tab add a refrence to your joomla project that is all

Thomas

2012/7/27 TDZWeb <webm...@tdzwebdesign.no>

When I edit code inside the joomla project in eclipse the code completion works great. It even takes into account jimport which gives me a lot of useful inline documentation and code suggestions.

However, when developing a component it is more practical to use the installer package file structure. Is there a way to reference the joomla application from another project so that I get the same benefits? Are there other developinig strategies that will give me what I need?

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[JSamir]

Do you symlink the folders then?

[TDZWeb]

Brilliant! This did the trick. Thx :)

kl. 12:44:49 UTC+2 fredag 27. juli 2012 skrev Thomas PAPIN følgende:

Open the properties of your projet, in the php include path,under "project " tab add a refrence to your joomla project that is all

Thomas

2012/7/27 TDZWeb <webm...@tdzwebdesign.no>

When I edit code inside the joomla project in eclipse the code completion works great. It even takes into account jimport which gives me a lot of useful inline documentation and code suggestions.

However, when developing a component it is more practical to use the installer package file structure. Is there a way to reference the joomla application from another project so that I get the same benefits? Are there other developinig strategies that will give me what I need?

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[tampe125]

I symlink my projects, too, since it's easier to manage them with GIT.
However you *could* have some problems with Eclipse XDebug.
This is very random, i have this issue in a pc, but not in another one O_o

However, if you should have any problem, you can manually add a breakpoint using this function:
if(function_exists('xdebug_break')) xdebug_break();

I wrapped it into a function_exists call to prevent fatal error if i forgot to delete a break point :P