How to setup Eclipse PDT on a bare Windows box?

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How to setup Eclipse PDT on a bare Windows box?

I have installed Eclipse PDT All-In-One and nothing works (I can edit PHP source but cannot execute any PHP Scripts).

Do I also need to install my own PHP interpreter? Do I need XAMPP? WAMP? Cygwin? XDebug? Zend?

I'm looking for the smallest amount of stuff that I need to install to get a working PHP IDE, starting with an empty install of Windows Vista.

I have tried installing XAMPP and setting PHP Executable, but that doesn't work.

Still getting "No PHP executables defined".

Eclipse PDT all in one
PHP
~~a web server (XAMPP for instance)~~ (as mentioned by Phill Pafford in the comments: " XAMPP comes with PHP so no need to install another instance of it")
a debugger (XDebug or Zend)

BUT: once PDT is installed, to avoid the error message:

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you need to one (PHP executable) through the preferences:

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, like C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.8\php.exe sous Wamp.

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Check also the coherence with the debug settings:

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VonC 2010-03-09 05:20:37

I did all the above, but with XAMPP 1.7.3 not WAMP. Xdebug has 8 versions to choose from, so I decided to skip that trial-and-error nightmare. It looks like http://downloads.zend.com/pdt/all-in-one/zend-eclipse-php-galileo-SR1-win32-x86.zip already comes with Zend Debugger, so I chose that. But still this doesn't work.

Alex R 2010-03-09 05:42:57

@Alex: that leaves us with your launching configuration. If your settings are correctly set in the PHP proferences, you shouldn't see a "No PHP executables defined" unless, somehow when launching your debug session, you are not using those settings.

VonC 2010-03-09 06:40:36

XAMPP comes with PHP so no need to install another instance of it

Phill Pafford 2010-03-09 13:07:11

Also Aptana (Which is Eclipse based) is another free IDE for PHP (And other) development

Phill Pafford 2010-03-09 13:07:57

I installed Aptana, and didn't really notice any difference.

Alex R 2010-03-09 14:06:26

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