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Created attachment 141008 [details] How Aptana Studio does it Netbeans supports a lot of useful tools to work remote (subversion, git) and also offers the the project type "PHP application from remote server". However for small projects it is not useful to download a whole project locally just for doing little modifications. It would be very useful to have a remote browser integrated which offers the possibility to download and edit single files quickly and immediatly upload these on save automatically. This is not a professional way how you would do it in huge projects, but for web developers with a huge number of small project it is an important feature. Eclipse/Aptana Studio offer such a feature (see screenshot attached). Just hope you can implement such a remote browsing feature. There is no need to interpret the whole PHP application when using this new project type, just syntax coloring should work.
This functionality is the only thing missing for me when using netbeans, it would really help if it would be added.
There is already an working plugin of this, but with a a lot of bugs but works for Netbeans 7.4... https://kenai.com/projects/nb-remotefs
Maybe priority is not so high, as there is this Plugin available. However a simple and good native implementation would be greatly appreciated.
As far as I can see the Plugin is about three years old, was never finished and is not updated any more. (In reply to gtplugins from comment #2) > There is already an working plugin of this, but with a a lot of bugs but > works for Netbeans 7.4... https://kenai.com/projects/nb-remotefs
Yes exactly, that is why I said there are many bugs, it's old and never finished. But the basic is there, a functionality like this plugins offers would make netbeans a lot more appealing for web developers.