[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: PDT2: Source / Public folders, how do they

[roy@xxxxxxxx (Roy Ganor)]

This is a good question, I'll try to be short and explain why the PDT team 
has decided to reuse the buildpath mechanism from Java.

on most projects (like in Java) there should be a logical separation 
between applicative code (php code) and other external resources (images, 
javascript, css, etc). Since it is a good practice to separate these two 
kinds of resources to make your project more modular, there is a point in 
marking a folder as source folder or as a resource folder. This separation 
also helps to be make your code more modular and to reduce the overhead of 
Eclipse that is scanning and parsing files to provide editing capabilities 
(like code assist and other modeling stuff)

hope this helps,
Roy



Michael N. Madsen wrote:

> Hi, I know Java and when src files are compiled the files are stored in 
> the public folder. Since php isn't compiled locally, what is the point 
> of having php projects set up this way?

> -Michael