Environment and development tools
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 and dictionnaries of any languages you plan to work for.
You can download this on web site http://www.firefox.com
SquirrelSQL
- SquirrelSQL for database administration
You can download it at http://squirrelsql.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/
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Si vous gérez d'autres projets sous SVN
- Installation du plugin pour Eclipse pour SVN: SubClipse.
Pour cela, utiliser la procédure Find And Install et ajouter l'URL de mise à jour: http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html
Si vous désirez faire des scripts en Perl
- Installation du plugin Eclipse pour Perl: EPIC
Pour cela, utiliser la procédure Find And Install et ajouter l'URL de mise à jour: http://e-p-i-c.sf.net/updates
Si vous désirez développer des modules avec le générateur UML2Dolibarr
Une méthode pour générer un module fonctionnel depuis l'UML est en cours de mise au point. Plus d'informations sur la page Building a module using MDA. Pour l'utiliser, vous devez installer les composants suivants.
- Vérifier dans Eclipse - Help - Software update - Manage Configuration que votre Eclipse contient les composants
- Si Eclipse 3.2:
- EMF 2.2.2
- UML2 2.0.3
- Si Eclipse 3.3:
- EMF 2.3.0
- UML2 2.1.1
Si non, les installer via la procédure Find And Install et choisir EMF et UML2 End-User.
- Installation de TopCased 1.4
Pour cela, utiliser la procédure Find And Install et ajouter l'URL de mise à jour: http://topcased-mm.gforge.enseeiht.fr/release/update-site3.3/
- Installation d'acceleo 2.2.1
Pour cela, utiliser la procédure Find And Install et ajouter l'URL de mise à jour: http://www.acceleo.org/update/
- Installation d'UML2Dolibarr
Pour cela, récupérer les projets par la commande:
svn checkout svn://svn.forge.objectweb.org/svnroot/acceleo/trunk/modules/community/uml21/dolibarr/trunk/
et les importer dans 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.