I’m new to programming and IDEs. I never understood the concept of a workspace in Eclipse, and I don’t understand it in Aptana.
With Eclipse I just put it into my web root. Not sure if that’s the way to go?
Can someone explain what a workspace is and where it should go? And if not in the web root, then how do I launch a PHP page from within the EDI?
Thanks!
An Eclipse workspace is a directory where (generally) all of the files you are working on live and that stores all of the state (like preferences and such) for a single user of Eclipse. So when you create projects, they are located in the workspace. The workspace has some metadata files that control how Eclipses behaves for you.
Eclipse keeps a representation of the workspace internally, which means the workspace can get out of sync with the underlying files. To sync them up, do a right-click Refresh in the Package/Project Explorer.
Usually the workspace goes into some directory relative to your home directory, since it’s private to each developer.