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Every integrated development environment can be used. However, this is a list of tools highly recommanded to use. They are all famous and a good help as they are featurful and of high quality. They are used by most main Dolibarr developers. Above all, they are all free and Opensource.

For every developer

This is the recommended main tools but every tool compliant to Web, PHP, Mysql and Web standards can be used.

A AMP server

• Apache, Mysql and PHP

For Linux: Those 3 products are available in all Linux distribution by default.

For Windows: Install WampServer 2 (Mysql database, Apache and PHP in an all in one package). This WAMP server offers MySql+Apache+PHP, with possibility to change version of any of this component with a simple click.

Firefox and plugins

• Firefox 3.0 with plugins: HTML Validator, Phplangeditor, Firebug + Firecookie, Dictionnaries of any languages you plan to work for, and Cert Viewer Plus if you plan to make tests with HTTPS, FoxyProxy if you want to switch quickly on proxy tools (WebScarab).

You can download this on web site http://www.firefox.com

SquirrelSQL

• SquirrelSQL for database administration

You can download it at http://squirrel-sql.sf.net

Eclipse and plugins

• Install Eclipse 3.2 or higher

You can download it on web site http://www.eclipse.org

• Install the Eclipse plugin for PHP: PDT

For this, go into menu "Find And Install" and add the update URL: http://download.eclipse.org/tools/pdt/updates/

Optional

If you manage other projects with SVN

• Install Eclipse pugin for SVN: SubClipse.

For this, use the Find And Install process and add the SVN update URL: http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html

If you want to make Perl scripts

• Install the Eclipse plugin for Perl: EPIC

For this, use the Find And Install process and add the update URL: http://e-p-i-c.sf.net/updates

If you want to develop modules with the UML2Dolibarr generator

A method to generate code of a module from UML is currently on work. More information on page Building a module using MDA. To use it, you must install the following components.

• Check in Eclipse - Help - Software update - Manage Configuration thet your Eclipse contains the component les composants

- If Eclipse 3.2:

1. EMF 2.2.2
2. UML2 2.0.3

- If Eclipse 3.3:

1. EMF 2.3.0
2. UML2 2.1.1

If no, install them Find And Install and choose EMF and UML2 End-User.

• Install TopCased 1.4

For this, use menu Find And Install and add update URL: http://topcased-mm.gforge.enseeiht.fr/release/update-site3.3/

• Install Acceleo 2.2.1

For this, user menu Find And Install and add update URL: http://www.acceleo.org/update/

• Install UML2Dolibarr

For this, get the procject with command:

svn checkout svn://svn.forge.objectweb.org/svnroot/acceleo/trunk/modules/community/uml21/dolibarr/trunk/

and import it into Eclipse.

If you are using Windows

• Notepad++ (for those which can't stand java or using a computer too old for Eclipse).

• WinMerge (to compare files and directories)

• CygWin (to have the "patch" command and the command line CVS if you prefer command lines interface)

If you want to make debug and tunning with XDebug

• Install xdebug.

With Ubuntu: install package php-xdebug

With WampServer/Windows: Download dll file on http://www.xdebug.org and to store in directory ext of php. Then enable plugin.

• Modify php.ini file (or xdebug.ini) to add parameters:

[xdebug]
xdebug.remote_enable=on
xdebug.remote_handle=dbgp
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.profiler_enable=1
xdebug.show_local_vars=off
xdebug.profiler_output_dir=c:/temp

• Then to analyze files generated by XDebug profiling, you can install KCacheGrind (Linux) or WinCacheGrind (Windows).

Setup

If you are an official developer with a write CVS access, add into your Eclipse setup a CVS entry.

:ext:yourlogin@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/dolibarr

Otherwise, you must get sources from tarball available on Dolibarr web site ( http://www.dolibarr.org ) in download area.