Thoughts about projects and remote file management, for the everyday PHP developper

[cresso]

Hello everyone.

First of all, let me thank and congratulate everyone who worked on NetBeans for creating this great IDE. I discovered it 2 weeks ago and I believe that the features and the quality of this project tops all other commercial and non-commercial IDEs out there.

I come from a Zend Studio 5.5 and Dreamweaver background. I have been trying to figure out for a while how to get NetBeans to work in a similar manner as these two products, when all files are located on a remote FTP server.

I understand that having a local copy of all the files in the project is required. With NetBeans 6.7, it is now possible to "upload on save". This is a great feature! However, I often work in an environment where a few developpers work on the same project, without a source control tool, for the sake of simplicity.
This means that we must always make sure that we have the latest version of the file before working on it.

Could it be possible to implement something like a "download file on open" feature? This would automatically download the file from the FTP/SFTP when we open it, instead of clicking "Download" manually.

This would make it much easier when working directly on a remote FTP/SFTP server. It would make file management very similar to Zend Studio 5.5/Dreamweaver.

I know that a great bunch of PHP programmers are working with a lot of projects of varying size, on a lot of different servers, with or without source control. Therefore I believe this features, "auto download file on open", would be a great improvement for the future.

If there is a way to do that with the current version of NetBeans, please excuse my newbieness and let me know.

Thank you and keep on the good work

[Tomas Mysik]

Hi,

Dne sobota 04 července 2009 15:03:47 cresso napsal(a):

[cresso]

Thanks for your reply.

I am aware that a VCS is definitely the solution to avoid versionning and concurency issues.

However, as a consultant working for a lot of different customers on many projects the sad truth is that very few of them are using VCS. Even worse, sometimes there no development site and all changes must be made directly in production.

That's why we always need to make sure that we have the latest version before we start working on it.

I know this can be considered "ninja-style", but unfortunately this is very common in the PHP developper world.

Such a feature would help developpers get away from "Editors" and move toward a real IDE.

[Filip Zamboj]

cresso wrote:

[cresso]

Thank you, I have filed an Issue about this, as suggested (Issue 168362).

[crazybyte]

Could this be done also for SFTP and not only for FTP connections? I have many cases when I need SFTP connection. Should I add a comment related to this to the issue opened? Thank you!

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:57 PM, cresso <address-removed ([email]address-removed[/email])> wrote:

[Tomas Mysik]

Hi,

Dne čtvrtek 09 července 2009 21:39:19 Varga Levente napsal(a):