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Eclipse PDT potential drawbacks - PHP Tutorial
From the course: PHP: Choosing a PHP Editor
Eclipse PDT potential drawbacks
- [Instructor] In general, I found the error messages are not particularly helpful in Eclipse PDT. So for example, you may not get an error message, and things will just not work, and you'll have to work out why. Or you'll get an error message, and it won't give you any indication of how to address the problem. Another issue is the fact that there's so many features and configuration settings in Eclipse PDT that it can be a bit overwhelming for beginners. Eclipse PDT is very powerful. However, it can be a little bit difficult to get it set up and running, and it can be quite unforgiving. So for example, it doesn't always make the best default choices for you. And sometimes you have to spend a bit of time working out how to get things working. So one example is when you're trying to create your run configurations, if you allow Eclipse PDT to auto-generate your URL for your project, it will actually use the project…
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