How to add FTP support to eclipse?

Question

I'm using Eclipse PHP Development Tools, which would be the easiest way to access a file or maybe create a remote project trough FTP and maybe SSH and SFTP?.

Answer 1

have you checked RSE (Remote System Explorer) ? I think it's pretty close to what you want to achieve.

a blog post about it, with screenshots

Answer 2

I'm not sure if this works for you, but when I do small solo PHP projects with Eclipse, the first thing I set up is an Ant script for deploying the project to a remote testing environment. I code away locally, and whenever I want to test it, I just hit the shortcut which updates the remote site.

Eclipse has good Ant support out of the box, and the scripts aren't hard to make.

Answer 3

Install Aptana plugin to your Eclipse installation.

It has built-in FTP support, and it works excellently.

You can:

• Edit files directly from the FTP server
• Perform file/folder management (copy, delete, move, rename, etc.)
• Upload/download files to/from FTP server
• Synchronize local files with FTP server. You can make several profiles (actually projects) for this so you won't have to reinput over and over again.

As a matter of fact the FTP support is so good I'm using Aptana (or Eclipse + Aptana) now for all my FTP needs. Plus I get syntax highlighting/whatever coding support there is. Granted, Eclipse is not the speediest app to launch, but it doesn't bug me so much.

Answer 4

SFTP Plug-in: http://www.jcraft.com/eclipse-sftp/ :)

Answer 5

that is good！that is good！

Answer 6

I second that :-)

Thanks mate.

Answer 7

Just a word of warning about Aptana - I downloaded it because of this question. It's a vast plug-in that does a lot more than just ftp-type things. As such it adds things all over your Eclipse installation - including advertisements for Adobe. There also seems to be no documented way of removing it. For me, this was a disaster that totally messed up my Eclipse configuration. So be warned - know what you're getting into with Aptana.