Improving Coding Efficiency (PHP)

[JerseyFoo]

Any recommendations on software to help improve my or anyone's coding efficiency? Particularly in PHP/MySQL.

Right now all I use is Notepad++. (Colored text, auto-tab, clean look)

However I'm getting tired of uploading a file through FTP 100 times over for tiny edits and adjustments. I'm tired of blowing 5 hours on a tiny mis-structure in the code.

I have heard of XAMP & xdebug, but how about some others?

PS: How about SSH?

 

[enouwee]

Any recommendations on software to help improve my or anyone's coding efficiency? Particularly in PHP/MySQL.

You've got a brain, use it. Works best if you have some solid algorithmics background.

Right now all I use is Notepad++. (Colored text, auto-tab, clean look)

However I'm getting tired of uploading a file through FTP 100 times over for tiny edits and adjustments. I'm tired of blowing 5 hours on a tiny mis-structure in the code.

WebDAV. Comes as option with some IDEs or can be added through a plugin (Eclipse). It also gives the script kidiots an additional chance to put their stuff onto the server without having to look for specific application.

I have heard of XAMP & xdebug, but how about some others?

Zend Studio comes with such gadgets. Or Eclipse with PDT.

PS: How about SSH?

find . | cpio -o | ssh your.server.com "cd $DOCUMENT_ROOT ; cpio -imd"

(depending on bandwidth limitations, you may want to add some gzip/bzip2 in-between.

rsync is nice if you have a few GB of stuff but only few files to update. It doesn't scale with 500,000+ files though, as you kill the directory and inode caches with your updates sweeps.

 

[JerseyFoo]

You've got a brain, use it. Works best if you have some solid algorithmics background.

I mean particularly with analyzing code, foreign code especially.

Say you had to write a complicated modification for vBulletin, it may take days just to get a general understanding of how it's put together, nevermind everything which goes on.

WebDAV. Comes as option with some IDEs or can be added through a plugin (Eclipse). It also gives the script kidiots an additional chance to put their stuff onto the server without having to look for specific application.

Would this be a alternative to SVN?

find . | cpio -o | ssh your.server.com "cd $DOCUMENT_ROOT ; cpio -imd"

What does this do exactly?