The Eclipse Foundation, a consortium of developers supporting the open-source Eclipse development platform, announces a major upgrade to the Eclipse PHP Development Tools project, PDT 2.0.

The project is the first from Eclipse to target the roughly 4 million PHP developers.

Eclipse is an integrated development environment (IDE) used primarily by Java programmers, but as PHP continues to grow in popularity, the new Eclipse tools are a natural progression for the software.

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