NetBeans for PHP

Is it possible to have a text wrap option for the editor, or is there one currently that I have missed. This would be helpful for when dealing with long lines. Thanks.

Posted by Nat Woodbridge on August 08, 2008 at 07:43 PM CEST #

This is excellent news. Am I correct to say that this is ftp and not sftp? Do you anticipate sftp support before the final release of 6.5?

Posted by duane gran on August 12, 2008 at 03:15 AM CEST #

Hi Duane,

Great to see FTP making it into NetBeans!

For us to make the switch from our other IDEs (yes, multiple!) we'd need both SFTP added *and* the ability to do smart sync'ing.

Dreamweaver's FTP is still the best I've used in an IDE (go figure). At the moment ScriptFTP (http://www.scriptftp.com/) is the best all round solution we've found, but its stand-alone -- to have its basic features integrated into an IDE would be *very* useful, especially when doing combined .js, .php, .html & Java/Groovy projects.

- (S)FTP Synchronize to local/server
- Cloak files/folders easily via the GUI
- Calculate time offsets properly
- Ability to Preview before up/down- loading

As we're doing html, css, javascript, php and Groovy development, it would be absolutely fantastic to be able to standardize on a single IDE.

Cheers,
-Chris

PS. A PHP debugging ability would be the icing on the cake!

Posted by Zermatt Chris on August 15, 2008 at 12:05 PM CEST #

Hi song,

it's just time issue. We wanted to do it, but we have not enough time to do it in NetBeans 6.5 time frame. We will add the functionality in an update or next release.

Thanks,
Petr

Posted by Petr on August 21, 2008 at 09:29 AM CEST #

Hi Alex,
thanks for your positive feedback! We will try to improve all the areas of our PHP support for the next release.

Regards,
Tomas

Posted by Tomas Mysik on September 03, 2008 at 09:27 AM CEST #

Hi Geoffrey,

I will try to answer your questions:):
1: I think this is somehow covered. You can assign a shortcut to the Upload action. Go to the Tools -> Options -> Keymap -> PHP category. The shortcut ALT-S is free so you can use it. The action Upload saves automatically the edited file / files. So when you edit a file and press now ALT-S, then the file is saved and the Upload dialog is opened. After pressing ENTER the Upload action should be executed. But I found a problem in the dialog. Issue http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=146976 . I hope that it will be fixed soon.

The assigning shortcut is possible from todays build.

2: In Tools -> Options -> General category you can specify the proxy. The ftp connection should go through this proxy. Does it work for you? If not this is a bug. I can not try it now.

3: You are right. We wanted to implement remote file system, where you want to delete and create files, folders. But there is not enough time for NB 6.5. I have entered new enhancement for this http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=146982 . There is a module from community http://hlavki.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-am-netbeans-fan-so-what.html , but I haven't had time to try it.

Regards,
Petr

Posted by Petr on September 11, 2008 at 06:13 PM CEST #

Hi Neal,

this was added after beta. You should use a recent built. It's much faster:). You can use different userdir, if you want to just try a recent built ( http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/userdir )

Regards,
Petr

Posted by Petr on September 18, 2008 at 05:47 PM CEST #

Hi wk,

I'm able to create file with ~ without a problem. For example ~hello.php. Which file do you want to create? And which build do you use?

Thanks,
Petr

Posted by Petr on October 19, 2008 at 11:05 PM CEST #

Sorry, my comment was sent to quickly. Let me add an example for better ilustration:

1.) I've got a project on FTP called myproject and I don't have any files localy stored

2.) I want to create a new project directly on FTP, without copying files on my local host filesystem.

Why? Because there are some old projects which are only present on FTP and sometimes and need to fix smt really quickly (without syncing my localhost/ftp files).

This functionality is also present in ZEND Studio 5.5a.

Special thing, problem:
When I create a new project from exsisting source I set the source folder to: E:\creatim\imamidejo. After that I tick the "put beans metadata into a seperate directory" and choose F:\Rokm's Documents\NetBeansProjects\imamidejo.

Then I get error message: "Project and Source directory cannot be relativized.".

What I'm doing wrong? Can't I have all projects metadata in a seperate disk/folder?

Posted by 89.142.171.4 on November 22, 2008 at 10:22 PM CET #

Hi,

To Roky:
>What I wanted to ask is, does-will the netbean
>support creating a project directly on FTP.

Basically no. NetBeans always needs to have local copy of the project. So you need create a local project and upload the source root through a FTP configuration to your server.

To 89.142.171.4:
>Why?Because there are some old projects which
>are only present on FTP and sometimes and need
>to fix smt really quickly (without syncing my
>localhost/ftp files).

I understand your point of view. Unfortunately NB 6.5 supports only the way, that you have to have local copy of the source files. Probably there will be more in the next version, where we want to introduce a FTP explorer and then it will be possible. We will see, whether there will be enough time to implement this.

>When I create a new project from exsisting
>source I set the source folder to: E:\creatim
>\imamidejo. After that I tick the "put beans
>metadata into a seperate directory" and choose
>F:\Rokm's Documents\NetBeansProjects\imamidejo.
>
>Then I get error message: "Project and Source
>directory cannot be relativized.".
>
>What I'm doing wrong? Can't I have all projects
>metadata in a seperate disk/folder?

Basically no. There has to be relative path between your project and source folder.

To LM:
We are aware about this problem and we already track it: http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=153036 . I hope that it will be fixed soon.

Thanks
Petr

Posted by Petr on November 25, 2008 at 03:27 PM CET #

hi, i'm upload several files of a project via ftp but are upload in binary mode, how can i configure the ftp to upload the files in ascii mode or in automatic mode (select binary or ascii depends file).

Thanks

P.D: sorry for my english ;-)

Posted by David on November 27, 2008 at 11:44 AM CET #

Hi David,

this setting is missing. I expect that you have problems with ending of lines on Windows in different editor than NB. Is it true?

It would be good if you can enter new bug against the ftp support in our issuezilla http://www.netbeans.org/community/issues.html, component php, subcomponent ftp.

Thanks,
Petr

Posted by Petr on November 27, 2008 at 01:38 PM CET #

The only thing stopping me from using this lack of SFTP support that the moment. I have a workaround for this lack of ability.

Use NetBeans as Editor and have WinSCP with "Sync local with remote directory".... WinScp will detect the changes and will upload relevant files automatically and also delete files if you set that configuration.

This work like very well. Hope this helps.

Posted by Azizur Rahman on January 05, 2009 at 02:09 PM CET #

+2 to Zermatt Chris' suggestions :] lack of smart sync support it's the only thing that prevent me to use netbeans for php atm.

Posted by 83.103.90.50 on February 14, 2009 at 01:32 PM CET #

Is there any way to force it to either check all files or recheck for sync? Something seems to have really broken since I reinstalled netbeans and syncing no longer is consistent. Previously it was perfect.

Posted by Travis on March 01, 2009 at 05:36 AM CET #

+3 to Zermatt Chris' suggestions =)
I will try to use NetBeans in my own small project, but without editing remote ftp file through some browser it is not possible to develop big project IMHO. Next step will be full sync remote+local project ?? ;)

ps: good IDE, thanks ! Hope it will be my favorite IDE ;)

Posted by YAAP on June 23, 2009 at 12:33 PM CEST #

Hi
I wasn't able to use FTP features behind a proxy.

I'm sure proxy/FTP settings are correct, is there a bug tracker system where I can report this problem ?

Best regards

Posted by .fay on August 04, 2009 at 12:47 PM CEST #

+4 on Zermatt Chris's sync suggestions (primarily download on open, maybe even date modified comparison)

And good job on producing, by far, the most usable php IDE, IMHO. And I've tried them all (Zend, Komodo, Aptana, PDT, UEStudio)

The only other feature that I miss from converting from UEStudio is the ability to fold on anything with braces (if, for, switch, etc)

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