Question

I was wondering whether it was possible for projects in Eclipse to have multiple languages associated with them, specifically PHP and Java. The purpose of this is that I’d like a common ‘properties’ file for the two projects.

If instead there’s a way to hold a relative reference to a file so that both projects can reference the properties file, that will work too.

Answer 1

Part one of the question

whether it was possible for projects
in Eclipse to have multiple languages
associated with them, specifically PHP
and Java

No, a project in eclipse is language dependent. You could technically write some source in another language and then use another build method to compile from the secondary language – Not recommended !!!

For the second part of the question …

Common Property files

Create another project and in that project put a java properties file.
Have both projects (Java and PHP) read the property file from here (In Java just add where you put the file as part of the classpath)
In PHP use this Java properties reader
If you are careful on how you write the Java properties file you could also use parse_ini_file