This is a guide to manually installing the CakePHP TextMate bundle in the TextMate Windows equivalent E TextEditor.

Usually I insert data into a MySQL database through PHP using something like

$mysql_query = "INSERT INTO table SET name = '$name', age = '$age'"

etc.

However, if I want to insert something that contains the ‘ character, I will get a MySQL error. Instead of manually handling all this stuff, PHP offers the function mysql_real_escape_string() which solves this problem. It also prevents SQL-injections, and thus it is recommended that all user-input be handled by this function before the MySQL insert is done.

An example

$mysql_query = "INSERT INTO table SET name = '". mysql_real_escape_string($name) ."'";

I assume that you have installed Python.

1. First of all, Eric needs a few prerequisites which are (fortunately) available from http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download
2. Download the binary packages for windows.
3. Download Eric.
4. Install the binary packages.
5. Extract Eric to a place of your choosing.
6. Run install.py
7. Run [c:\ericdir]\eric\eric4.py and you’re off!