Zend Studio for Eclipse and SFTPDrive not on speaking terms

ZendStudio for Eclipe can't see SFTPDrive mounts

Update: This seems to have fixed itself one night. Maybe I rebooted? Who knows. Anyway, all seems good now.


So I use SFTPDrive on my Vista workstation at work to mount remote filesystems. It generally works pretty well, and I’ve never had an issue where a program didn’t treat my mount as a local drive — until I decided to give upgrading to Zend Studio for Eclipse a go (licenses for which were generously donated to CERIAS by Zend). For some reason, ZSfE just doesn’t show me my “k:” drive (the SFTP mount) when browsing for a project directory. This throws a real wrench in my usual workflow — ZS 5.5 had built-in SFTP support, and I could also use the local mount if I wanted.

I did look in Zend’s Support KB and the forums, but did not come across anything like this. Have you? Any alternatives for directly connecting and editing over SFTP?

Posted by funkatron on 03/19/08 at 10:40 AM

Sean Coates says...

It’s been a long time since I’ve used Eclipse (in any form other than FlexBuilder) for day-to-day work, but I do seem to recall it having reasonable sftp support by plugin.

This came up on a search: http://www.jcraft.com/eclipse-sftp/

Odd that it doesn’t see your drive, though.

S

Posted by Sean Coates  on  03/19  at  01:01 PM

Josh Johnston says...

Create a new PHP Project. Don’t add any content to it initially. In the left hand side PHP Explorer, right click on the project and choose New > Remote Folder.

This lets you link a remote folder to a local project. There is a big push to ‘fix’ remote editing in ZSfE. 5.5 had awesome remote file support, 6.0 is mediocre at best. If you check the Zend Neon Group mailing list on Yahoo you can track its status.

Posted by Josh Johnston  on  03/19  at  02:55 PM

Ed Finkler says...

@Josh: very helpful, thanks. I eventually ended up doing the same thing in a slightly different way, but it looks like were good. Initially I had experimented with the Remote Systems stuff and making a “Remote Project,” but that didn’t appear to support any kind of “code insight"-type stuff, which is really the main reason I use an IDE.

I was also frustrated to find that the info on creating SFTP connections in the Help info is just plain *wrong*. It puts FTP and SFTP in the same boat, but the directions actually only work for plain FTP connections.  This kind of documentation goofiness seems to have plagued Zend for quite a while now.

Posted by Ed Finkler  on  03/19  at  03:56 PM

Q says...

Honestly man, I aint being snotty…

the root cause of ur problem is Windows Vista

Throw it away, I never appreciated my macbook until I had to use Vista yesterday for a whole 3 hours… it sucked

Posted by Q  on  03/25  at  08:09 AM

Josh Johnston says...

@Q I run ZSfE on a MacBook Pro and I have the same issues. I enjoy Vista-bashing as much as the next guy but this is a case where it is not at fault.

Posted by Josh Johnston  on  03/25  at  09:05 AM
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