Coming back to PHP / mysql after years away - What to use to create and upload

[Rikki]

Hey folks,

Pretty much as the title says - havent done any real mucking around in years and back then I used Win32pad and SmartFTP.

Whats the norm these days and has FTP been superceded by something else thats better for development and rapid changes to code?

Thanks

R

 

[Mynight]

Notepad++ and CoreFTP is all I use.

I don't think there's anything really that supersedes FTP yet.

 

[roccles]

I personally use PHPStorm with its built in FTP. Although I don't do much that much PHP development I do have a few sites that are running off Laravel backends which I did enjoy working in.

What sort of project are you going to be working on?

 

[radderfire]

WinSCP is a very good free FTP program. Here's a list of the other free options.

 

[Rikki]

Thanks folks, I was sure Id heard in some podcast that FTP had kinda been replaced with something else so edits were instantly on the server for testing, might have been a Github type thing or some kind of version controller... Should have paid more attention!

Its an online car voting system for a car show roccles

 

[Mynight]

Thanks folks, I was sure Id heard in some podcast that FTP had kinda been replaced with something else so edits were instantly on the server for testing, might have been a Github type thing or some kind of version controller... Should have paid more attention!

Its an online car voting system for a car show roccles

Might have been WebDav I know they were being heaviliy pushed as the next FTP but last time I used it was painful.

Maybe a webdisk? Just edit files live on your system as soon as they're saved it's pushed straight to server.

 

[kwerk]

Another notepad++ user here, with the nppftp plugin. Although I quite like Bluefish too.

 

[bscott]

My workflow uses Git and Vagrant.

I have Vagrant running a vm on the local machine where I do my development. The web server in the vm accesses my local PC files and I can instantly see the effect of changes.

I use Git to sync the files to the remote servers as described in this Digital Ocean article.

 

[Etheco]

Editor side of things, I use Atom (Built by the Github devs and open-source) and use a Package called "Remote-FTP" to allow me to make direct changes on my development site.

When pushing stuff to a live environment i always go through the stages of committing to git and merging to the live branch and then it auto syncs the files with my Hooks.