

8 Quick tour of some cool features, and remaining configuration changesĮclipse is written in Java, so I recommend getting the latest Java runtime environment from for maximum speed and reliability.Įclipse is quite big, so I recommend lots of memory in your computer.7 Let your development web server know where your files are.

5 Setting the preferences for Moodle development.4 Installing the necessary plugins, for Eclipse Classic.The following instructions, from the section #Setting_the_preferences_for_Moodle_development mostly still apply after you have done the install, but some of the details are a bit different. Follow the instructions #Installing_the_necessary_plugins,_for_Eclipse_Classic PART 1. Since then, several other people have worked through it and made corrections and the information should be pretty accurate.Ī new PHP plugin called PDT, which is better, but uses more memory. This article started off as a brain-dump by Tim Hunt. It should not change much between releases. These instructions assume Eclipse 3.2, the current version at the time of writing. However, Eclipse is not the easiest program in the world to get started with, so I'm going to take you through it step by step. Other (more) popular choices are vim and emacs. It has lots of very powerful features, and it is the editor that some Moodle developers like to use. Eclipse is an IDE originally designed for Java, but now with plugins for many languages including PHP.
