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Testing / Creating PHP files remotely?

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JohnKimble

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I'm wondering what would be a good way that I can test PHP files remotely? Say, if I'm in school and during my free time, just play around with php? I have a website/ftp but I'm not sure how I can do this.
 
There are some editors that have an ftp client built in. So instead of opening files, you'd point it at your ftp server, it'd grab a local copy of the files and simply put them back up when you say so (maybe whenever you save, maybe you have to tell it explicitly to upload). Never used one though, so I couldn't recommend a specific one.
 
Like Kamper said, many editors have built-in FTP clients. So, when you open a file, you go File > Open Remote and connect to the FTP server and get your file. Whenever you save the file, it's automatically uploaded to the server in the background. After that, you jsut have torefresh the PHP page in your web browser.

Crimson Editor is a free editor for windows that supports this feature, if you'd like to try it.

As far as I know, this is how nearly everyone works on these types of things. It's how I've been working on them for the past half-decade or so, anyway.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
As far as I know, this is how nearly everyone works on these types of things. It's how I've been working on them for the past half-decade or so, anyway.
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Or you can always run your own testing webserver. Of course that won't go so well if you're on the school's machines 😛
 
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