Aptana PHP

We are pleased to announce Aptana is combining efforts with those of the Eclipse PDT (PHP Development Tools) project, the official set of Eclipse development tools for PHP. We will be contributing various parts of the Aptana PHP plugin to that project. We believe that having a single plugin will be best for the PHP developers community, and look forward to a long and productive relationship with the PDT team.

Aptana PHP is no longer included in Aptana Studio 2.0, and only PDT will be supported going forward. Developers who wish to continue using Aptana PHP may continue using Aptana Studio 1.5.x for as long as they wish.

Installing PDT

You can install Eclipse PDT into Aptana Studio 1.5.x or Aptana Studio 2.0 by following the steps below. Note that users of 1.5.x may need to do some additional steps before installing PDT itself. Aptana Studio 2.0 users can skip to Step 3.

  1. Aptana 1.5.x Users ONLY: Uninstall your current PHP Plugin (if applicable)
    1. First, confirm you do not have the Aptana PHP Development Environment installed. To do so, select Help -> About Aptana Studio (on Mac Aptana Studio -> About Aptana Studio).
    2. At the bottom of the About dialog, press the Installation Details button. If Aptana PHP 1.1 Development Environment (or the equivalent) isn't there, cancel the two open dialogs and skip to step 5 below. If it is showing, select it and then click the Uninstall... button.
    3. Click Finish on the Uninstall dialog that appears
    4. After the uninstall completes, click Yes when asked to restart Aptana Studio and wait for it to finish restarting before beginning the next step.
  2. Aptana 1.5.x Users ONLY: Enable the Eclipse Update Site
    1. Go to your Window->Preferences... ( on Mac go to Aptana Studio-> Preferences)
    2. Expand Install/Update
    3. Select Available Software Sites
    4. Select the "Galileo Update Site" (or Ganymede in some cases): http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo
    5. Click Enable on the right to enable this update site.
  3. Install PDT
    1. Go to Window->Show View->Plugin Manager
    2. Under Feature Plugins, select PDT SDK. For minimalists, you can choose to select only the Runtime subcheckbox.
    3. Click the Next button
    4. Confirm the items you are installing and click the Next button once more
    5. Accept the terms and conditions and click the Finish button
    6. After the install is completes, click Yes when asked to restart Aptana Studio and wait for it to finish restarting before beginning the next step.
  4. Fix CSS File Associations (Only needed for versions prior to 2.0.2)
    1. Go to Window->Preferences...->General->Editors->File Associations
    2. Add an entry for .css
    3. In the Associated editors, selects Aptana CSS Editor and makes it the default.