HOWTO: Setup project properties in PhpED?
PhpED helps you manage your files with workspaces and projects. Typically project is the set of
files associated with one website. Workspace may contain one or multiple projects. You may want
to have multiple projects in one Workspace if they have something in common, e.g. share code,
customer etc. Some good hints about projects in PhpED:
- As we said, project is your website. PhpED's project's files structure is very simple and
similar to that of the web. Just like Apache's web root is defined by htdoc directory, PhpED's
project is defined by its own root directory as well. Select File->New Project menu item and
new Project dialog appears. Second from the top is Project Root Directory. Just like web
recognizes files under htdoc, PhpED project will recognize all subfolders and files residing
under Root Directory as belonging to the project and will display them in Project tree on
the Workspace Tab. Should you add another file to any folder or subfolder under root directory
or remove existing file - the Project will update itself automatically.
- Each project with all its files "lives" on a local disk (or sometimes on a shared network disk).
It makes sense because opening, editing and saving are very common and frequently used operations.
By placing all the project files on the local disk(s) phped saves your time.
- In case if you need your project to be published on a remote development or live sever you have
to setup an FTP, WEBDAV, SFTP or Samba/Windows Share account and select this account in the project
publishing account setting. You will have to set top publishing directory there too.
Suppose, your project root is c:\myproject1 and web tree starts in /var/www/html/, and
FTP server shows this tree as ftp://yourserver/www/html/. In this case you should
- create an FTP account with yourserver hostname
- select this account in publishing account setting
- set /www/html/ as top publishing directory.
BTW, alternatively you could set top publishing to / and set /www/html as root in the
account settings.
With these settings your project or its directory or single file can be published by just one click.
See popup menu "Upload" or Publishing->Smart Upload in the Workspace, or Project->Upload Project
in the main menu.
- Sometimes projects are big enough. In this case it may make sense to skip files that are already
synchronized. Unfortunately, phped has no ability to automarically compare file contents before publishing.
and this would hardly make sense as it does not know how to interpret the changes. But PhpED can
compare file size and datetime stamp. This feature is available as "Smart Upload". You may publish
your project by selecting Publishing->Smart Upload. Sometimes, remote servers are located in
different timezones and keep datetime stamps for all files screwed up or down by some hours. In
this case you have to specify this difference in Time Offset property for your publishing account.
- If you need to download files that are modified (potentially by somebody else), you can run
Publishing->Smart Download. In this case PhpED will replace local files that have either
different size or older datetime stamp.
Finally, there is two-way syncronization is available with Publishing->Smart Sync choise. In
this case PhpED scan both local machine and server and show list with suggestions what it thinks
is the best to get your server and local machine properly synchronized. There are options to
change options and policy on what to do with remote files if their couterparts are missed on local disk
and vice versa. There are three options for both policies: upload (download), delete and skip.
Of course, there is Show Difference option, so you can inspect file content before overriding.
- Publishing supports filters. If you have files in the project that should never be sent to the server,
add their file masks to Do not publish files input on Project Properties->Publishing page
Multiple choises should be delimited with semicolon, for example *.svn;*.passwords;*.csv. Similarly
you can exclude directories by their relative path or name.
- When you debug your files on a remote host, it's important to have Remote root directory
properly set.
If you work with local web server (such as Apache or IIS), it's easier work directly in the web
tree. Just set both project root directory and remote root directory pointing to Apache htdocs
directory (or Home directory in case of IIS).
- With either local or remote web servers you need to set project Root URL. It's very simple.
In case of local server this url should look like http://localhost/ and in case of remote server
localhost should be replaced with your remote host name. You can add port number if you run
server on a port other than 80 (443 in case of https) or change http to https if you run ssl
enabled server.
- If you want phped to hide some files in the project tree, just add corresponding masks to
Hide files list. For example *.~*;*.bak;*.exe;*.dll
- Whenever you work with Apache or IIS you have to set Run Mode to HTTP Mode (3rd party Web Server).
- If you have one file or URL that you want to be run every time you click Run or Run in debugger
(for example c:\myproject1\www\html\index.php or http://arbitrary/url/index.php) you can set
this file in Default File or URL setting.
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