This question has popped up in many open forum sites if you do a search term, but I think most of them are either talking about the remote explorer functionality or the design view. However this is how I use a glorified text editor (Dreamweaver) in Windows and I was wondering if there is such functionality present in Linux. I use the site manager to keep a local copy of my PHP files, and on save they are uploaded to the remote server. It also keeps an eye out for all my changes, which i can commit when I decide im done with my process, Sort of like Eclipse.Now there are IDEs or other software that do one or the other, however none that I found that perform both the tasks easily as one entity. The question is, has anyone got comfortable using Linux as a prime PHP development platform to develop for remote servers.
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I don't think you're looking in the right place. The functionality you're asking about is primarily one that would be provided by version control software. Specifically, use distributed revision control software, such as Bazaar, Git or Mercurial. Keep a repository on your local machine and one on your server. When you're satisfied with the changes, commit to your local repository, then push the changes to your server and update the checkout there. (You can script the whole chain, of course.)The IDE part is only the icing on the cake: all you'd require from it is a convenient interface to the underlying version control software. Me being me, I'll recommend Emacs.