Zend Studio and remote host - best practise

Question

Hi,

Got the following:

1. Zend Studio
2. Zend Framework Project
3. Remote host with FTP and SSH (root access)

Want to:

1. Save directly to remote host.

Currently i'm working on a localhost *AMP server, manually updating the remote through FTP.

Have tried various ways to acomplish the above - unsuccessfull obviously.

Can some one tell me what to do? Studio 5 (pre-eclipse) was so much better for pure 'FTP programming'.

/Philip

Answer 1

You can use 3rd party utilities:

• Expandrive for OSX
• Netdrive (commercial) or FTPDrive (free)

to mount FTP/SFTP to drive or folder so you can work as it is locally.

Answer 2

Whatever you do, don't use Expandrive. That's what I'm working with now, and it grinds ZSE to a crashing halt. Sometimes, Expandrive just stops working and ZSE thinks the file disappeared, so you have to close everything and anything not saved is lost.

EDIT: One solution that's worked for us is using the samba protocol, using Windows' samba compatibility to create a remote drive, and then interacting with your code base that way. Make sure to ignore building large static files or large files you won't be directly editing to further speed up Eclipse when building a project this way.