[Ldsoss] PHP remote development environment

[Thomas Haws]

Well, as I mentioned on this list, I'm hiring an on-call professional
consultant to mentor and assist with these things.  Perhaps I could have
him/her get me set up with SVN.

My application is already being used by the executives at my non-profit, so
breaking it is not a happy thought.  I will work on getting a dev directory
and maybe a dev database set up.

Thanks for the great reminders and suggestions!

Tom

On 5/1/07, Bryan Murdock <bmurdock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/1/07, Mary Shaw <marybeshaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Tom,
> > You might like to do your development/testing online in a separate
> > directory (or virtual host, if you can).  This is mostly for after you've
> > released something that is being used.  It's a safer way to develop - you
> > won't have to worry what you "break" when you save a file that might contain
> > a syntax error.  Then, get into the habit of copying data into the "live"
> > directory from your development/testing area(s), or use CVS for revision
> > control.
> >
>
> I would say _and_ use CVS, not _or_.  If you aren't using revision control
> already, you really should, you'll love it.
>
> Actually, I wouldn't say use CVS, I'd say use SVN (Subversion), or even
> better, one of the new distributed revision control systems.  Bazaar (bzr)
> works best on windoze right now, I think.  They are a lot easier to get up
> and running with.  An example with bzr (it's a command-line thing only right
> now)
>
> cd c:\path\to\project
> bzr init
> bzr add
> bzr commit -m "initial import"
>
> Now you are ready to make changes to your code.  bzr diff will show you
> what you've changed.  bzr commit will commit the changes to the revision
> history.  If you really mess up, you can go back and get previous revisions.
>
>
> Bryan
>
>
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