FTP Advice

Hi all,
I'm currently using FileZilla as my FTP client and editing all files in Notepad++. I've been looking for a way to have my most recent/frequent uploads displayed in one place so I can easily upload:
index.php
css/main.css
js/scripts.js
js/libs/hybridauth/....
etc..
without having to browse through all the folders constantly. It doesn't seem like a big feature, but I don't see it anywhere in any ftp clients. I see in FZ that I can requeue files but then we have to restart the queue and it's basically the same amount of click anyway.

I may end up having to use N++ ftp plugin so I can upload the files from there, but I'd prefer to be using a separate ftp client.

Anyone ran into this before? If so what did you do?

Thanks,
Kallum

 

Did you consider to use dreamweaver ? I believe this could be handy for you.

 

I did consider it, but I thought it to be a bit heavy.
I'll give it a go though as I know it does pretty much everything I want, uploading files on save and syntax highlighting etc...

Thanks

 

It's really easy to use it, once you get used to it, also there are many tutorials and documentation which will help you to troubleshoot any problem that you may face with it. Good luck

 

I have used it in the past but moved to the more basic Notepad++ and FileZilla method. I think there's just a lot of Dreamweaver that I'll not use and it feels like a large program for just editing text basically
I now miss a lot of the features though that were so easy in Dreamweaver. It seems odd that a full standalone FTP client can't do it.

My worry is that the last time I used it the FTP of Dreamweaver was pretty terrible... Definitely poor when uploading many files (like the first time uploading a framework) but also just slow in general. I mean Filezilla puts up files almost instantly.

I'll try it though

 

Have you considered NetBeans? I've started using it instead of NotePad++. It's heavier, but at least it's heavy with useful functionality (unlike DW).

 

I'll give it a go I used it for programming Java before and I liked it.
I've been using Dreamweaver for a few days and it's doing my head in how it doesn't even do syntax highlighting. Why can't it just highlight in red the respective close/open tag/bracket... The Ctrl+Shift+U upload is very nice though, no messing finding the right folders.

 

You can't expect normal, sensible functionality at that level for DW.

I had been trying to decide (for PHP) between Netbeans and Eclipse. In the end, I tried Netbeans and was surprised at how much made a difference over NotePad++ (still my go to editor for other stuff, so quick and light).

 

Ok, Netbeans is looking promising Not really done any programming but I've imported the porject and had a bit of a play.
Seems like good FTP integration. Fast upload om save.
Proper highlighting of start/end tags/brackets. Highlighting of the same variable too.

I installed the Chrome Extension to help debug but it seems like that's only for HTML5 and not PHP. Like I said, I've not spent much time with it yet so it might be something I figure out later.