Setting up your workstation for Joomla development

Introduction

This is a trial to better structure all the wiki pages around developing on and with joomla. Such as:

Setting up your workstation for PHP development. A similar step-by-step guide for general PHP development environment (with some more choices and info).
Setting up your workstation for Joomla! development. A complete step-by-step guide to installing the Eclipse IDE on your local workstation for Joomla! development.

Installing a typical web server environment is very easy with following AMP-packages (Apache, MySQL, PHP).

XAMPP (Mutliple OS)
- Configuring a XAMPP server for joomla development
- Xampp
LAMP (Linux)
- Configuring a LAMPP server for PHP development
WAMP (Windows),. A good choice for for a local server environment for windows is WampServer.
MAMP (Macintosh / OS X) http://www.mamp.info/en/download.html MAMP] by living-e AG may be a good choice.

If you want use XDebug for debuggin, you'll need to tune php settings

If you like to contribute to the actual Joomla! code, SVN is what is used there.

Ant
- Joomla Ant build files
Phing It's possible that Phing can use al ant files (needs confirmation though)
- Setting up your workstation for extension development (build with Phing)
- Extension development using eclipse and phing This article explains one way in which you can set up your workstation for writing Joomla! extensions. It assumes that you are using Eclipse and that you are familiar with using Eclipse for working with Joomla! and Subversion. For more information about the basics of getting started with Eclipse for Joomla! development.
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