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‎Understanding the folder structure

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‎Understanding the folder structure

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‎Understanding the folder structure

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‎Understanding the folder structure

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‎Option 2: Software center

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‎Option 1: Terminal

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   .settings
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-This files and folders contain information about your custom project configurations and building information that will let Eclipse show tree views dependencies and classes.
+This files and folders contain information about your custom project configurations and building information that will let Eclipse show tree views of dependencies and classes among many other things.
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 == Understanding the folder structure ==
-When you execute Eclipse for the first time, it ask you to create a "workspace" the workspace is a folder where Eclipse IDE will store 2 things all your custom configurations and all your projects.
+When you execute Eclipse for the first time, it ask you to create a "workspace" the workspace is a folder where Eclipse IDE will store 2 things all your custom configurations and all or some of your projects.
 All your projects will be separated by folders inside the workspace folder like this

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 == Understanding the folder structure ==
-When your execute Eclipse for the first time, it ask you to create a "workspace" the workspace is a folder where Eclipse IDE will save the configurations about your editors, perspectives and views also the workspace folder is normally used to locate your project files separated by folders, nonetheless you can place your project files outside the workplace folder if you want.
+When you execute Eclipse for the first time, it ask you to create a "workspace" the workspace is a folder where Eclipse IDE will store 2 things all your custom configurations and all your projects.
-The workplace folder name could any valid folder name, but by default Eclipse IDE set the name "workplace" to it, and it tries to locate the folder at your documents folder or your home folder, ex "/home/youruser/workspace"
+All your projects will be separated by folders inside the workspace folder like this
-When you create new PHP project and you decide to place it inside the workplace folder then it may looks like this:
+You can have more than one workspace, each of them will contain it own custom configurations and will not affect the information of other workspaces, for example you can have a workspace located at "/home/youruser/java-workspace/" dedicated to contain Java projects and an a separated workspace like this "/home/youruser/php-workspace/" dedicated to PHP development.
- /home/youruser/workspace/myphptutorial
+As you can see your workspace folder could be on any valid folder location, for the purposes of PHP development and our convenience we can set our workspace folder in the same location were our web server store it web files for example "/home/youruser/lamp/public_html/" this way Eclipse IDE and our web server will use the same location for our web files.
- /home/youruser/workspace/joomla_component
- /home/youruser/workspace/test
-Those 3 folders represent 3 different projects inside the same "workspace" and they will share the same editor and perspective layout configuration for Eclipse IDE.
+Is important to note that you have the additional option to place your project files outside the workspace locations if you wish, this way Eclipse gives you an additional flexibility in certain cases, for example, lets say we got a workspace located at "/home/youruser/workspace/" witch contains several random projects, but our server store it files in a different location at "/home/youruser/lamp/public_html/" of course we want to put our PHP project there so we can edit the files and serve the pages at the same time, so all you need to do is to create a folder like this "/home/youruser/lamp/public_html/my-joomla-project", then create a new PHP project and manually specify the path of our new project.
-The configurations about the editors and perspective layouts are specifically located at the hidden folder called ".metadata" which is right inside the workspace folder, this means you can move the workplace folder from one computer to another and work in Eclipse from another computer with all your custom configurations and projects just easy.
+You may ask what is the difference of project that are inside and outside the workspace folder, the only noticeable difference is at the moment of creating new projects, when you create a project inside the workspace Eclipse IDE will automatically create a folder for that project with the same name of the project itself, in the other hand if the project is outside the workspace location you can set a random name for the project and then you got to set the path of the project manually regardless of the destination folder name.
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 == Fine tuning ==

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 == Understanding the folder structure ==
-When your execute Eclipse for the first time, it ask you to create a "workspace" the workspace is a folder where Eclipse IDE will save the configurations about your editors, perspectives and views also the workspace folder is normally used to locate your project files separated by folders, nonetheless you can place your project files outside the workplace folder if you like.
+When your execute Eclipse for the first time, it ask you to create a "workspace" the workspace is a folder where Eclipse IDE will save the configurations about your editors, perspectives and views also the workspace folder is normally used to locate your project files separated by folders, nonetheless you can place your project files outside the workplace folder if you want.
 The workplace folder name could any valid folder name, but by default Eclipse IDE set the name "workplace" to it, and it tries to locate the folder at your documents folder or your home folder, ex "/home/youruser/workspace"

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 == Understanding the folder structure ==
-When your execute Eclipse for the first time, it ask you to create a "workspace" the workspace is a folder where Eclipse IDE will save the configurations about your editors, perspectives and views also the workspace folder is normally used locate your project files separated by folders, nonetheless you can place your project files outside the workplace folder if you like.
+When your execute Eclipse for the first time, it ask you to create a "workspace" the workspace is a folder where Eclipse IDE will save the configurations about your editors, perspectives and views also the workspace folder is normally used to locate your project files separated by folders, nonetheless you can place your project files outside the workplace folder if you like.
 The workplace folder name could any valid folder name, but by default Eclipse IDE set the name "workplace" to it, and it tries to locate the folder at your documents folder or your home folder, ex "/home/youruser/workspace"

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 *Click on the "install" button
 *Wait until installation processes finish
-*If everything whent fine Eclipse IDE should be available in the software menu
+*If everything went fine Eclipse IDE should be available in the software menu
 === Method 2: From a downloaded copy  ===

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   <tt> sudo apt-get install eclipse </tt>
 *Wait until installation process finish
-*If everything whent fine Eclipse IDE should be available in the software menu
+*If everything went fine Eclipse IDE should be available in the software menu
 ==== Option 2: Software center  ====

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−	There ~~is 2~~ ways to download and install Eclipse IDE to your Linux box, you can do it automatically from the comfort of your software center or using the Linux terminal with few commands or manually downloading and installing Eclipse IDE from the Eclipse project website or other alternative download sites.	+	There are several ways to download and install Eclipse IDE to your Linux box, you can do it automatically from the comfort of your software center or using the Linux terminal with few commands or manually downloading and installing Eclipse IDE from the Eclipse project website or other alternative download sites.

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	== Installation ==		== Installation ==

−	There is 2 ways to download and install Eclipse IDE in your Linux box, you can do it automatically from the comfort of your software center or the Linux terminal with few commands or manually downloading and installing Eclipse IDE from the Eclipse project website or other alternative download sites.	+	There is 2 ways to download and install Eclipse IDE to your Linux box, you can do it automatically from the comfort of your software center or the Linux terminal with few commands or manually downloading and installing Eclipse IDE from the Eclipse project website or other alternative download sites.