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Develop a Google App for PHP application

Download and install Python, version 2.7.

Download and install the Google App Engine for PHP.

Install the Google App Engine Support for PHP plugin on the Settings/Preferences | Plugins page, tab Marketplace, as described in Installing plugins from JetBrains repository. The plugin is not bundled with IntelliJ IDEA, but it can be installed on the Settings/Preferences | Plugins page, tab Marketplace, as described in Installing plugins from JetBrains repository.

Create a Google account at http://www.google.com.

Create an application on the Create application page of the Google App Engine and remember its application ID, you will have to specify it during the creation of a project.

Select File | New | Project from the main menu or click the New Project button on the Welcome screen.

In the New Project dialog, select PHP in the left-hand pane.

In the right-hand pane, choose App Engine Project and click Next.

On the second page of the wizard, specify the following:

1. The name of the project and the folder to create it in.

2. The version of the template to use.

3. In the Application ID field, type the identifier of your application as you specified it on the Create application page.

4. In the SDK directory field, specify the path to the folder where the Google App Engine SDK for PHP is installed.

5. The location of the Python executable file. Type the path manually in the Python executable field or click Browse and choose the Python executable in the dialog that opens.

Click Finish when ready.

In the Settings/Preferences dialog (Ctrl+Alt+S), go to Languages & Frameworks | PHP | Google App Engine for PHP.

On the Google App Engine for PHP page that opens, select the Enable Google App Engine for PHP support checkbox and specify the following:

1. The folder where the Google App Engine for PHP SDK is stored.

2. The path to the Python 2.7 executable file.

3. In the App Engine Account Settings area, choose the way to authenticate to the development server, the available options are:

   • Use passwordless login via OAuth2: choose this option to use the OAuth 2.0 protocol. To save the token achieved through the Google Developers Console, clear the Do not save token checkbox.

   • Log in with email and password: choose this option to use your Gmail address and password.