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Eclipse Hook Templates

A collection of very handy Drupal hook templates is available for Eclipse. These are great for quickly inserting many common Drupal hook functions for both Drupal 6 and 7.

1. Download the templates from the Eclipse Hook Templates project page.
2. In Eclipse, go to Preferences > PHP > Editor > Templates and 'Import' the downloaded XML file. Apply your changes.
3. Use the templates by typing the name of the hook (eg. 'hook_form') and pressing ctrl-space to pop up the auto-complete window.

PHP Development Tools (PDT) (package)

This is the official Eclipse project developed by Zend at http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/.

1. Make sure Drupal file types are recognized as PHP files:

   For PDT version 2.1.1: Under Window -> Preferences (Eclipse
   -> Preferences on Mac) menu:

   • Expand the left-hand menu to General -> Content Types. Under Content types on the right, click Text -> PHP Content Type. Add the *.engine, *.theme, *.install, *.inc, *.module *.profile and *.test file types so that these files will be recognized as PHP. The free plug-in to Eclipse for Drupal developers does this for you and is easy to install.
2. Make sure the file encoding and characters are Unix friendly so that any code can be committed back in to the Drupal repositories (if you are so inclined):

   For PDT version 2.1.1: Under Window -> Preferences (Eclipse
   -> Preferences on Mac) menu:

   • In the left-hand menu click on General -> Workspace: Check Text file encoding and select
     Other :
       UTF-8
     Check New text file line delimiter and select
     Other:
       Unix
     
     
3. Ensure that spaces are used instead of tabs:

   For PDT version 2.1.1: Under Window -> Preferences (Eclipse
   -> Preferences on Mac) menu:

   • In the left-hand menu click on General -> Editors -> Text
     Editors: Check Insert spaces for tabs.
     
   • In the left-hand menu click on PHP -> Code Style ->
     Formatter: Set Tab policy: Spaces. Set Indentation size to 2.