Ed Finkler, a long-time user of SFTPDrive on his Windows machine, has noticed something a bit odd lately when using the new Zend Studio (Eclipse):

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.

Finding nothing in the traditional places, he's made this blog post hoping someone might have the answer. Turns out that the fix (as provided by Josh Johnston) is to create a new project around a new Remote Folder.

The PHP-GTK Community site has posted a new poll that ask PHP-GTK developers which, of the choices provided is their favorite editing widget used in their applications.

The choices are:

• GtkScintilla
• GtkSourceView
• GtkTextView

They also included the "Homegrown" option for anyone that might have whipped up their own. At the time of this posting, GtkScintilla and GtkTextView are tied with two votes apiece. If you're a PHP-GTK developer and have worked much with text editing widgets, head over and cast your vote today!

WebReference.com has posted part four (the final installment) of their "Building a Weblog" series today, focusing on creating the categories for the posts, adding a new entry, and updating a current one.

First off is the creation of the categories script - just a simple little page that takes in the category name (from a form) and inserts it into the categories table in the database. The next form functions in basically the same way, but handles more information. It lets you write and save a new blog entry to the database.

Finally, since everyone makes mistakes, they include a sample script to let you update one of your already posted blog entries, using the same kind of form you used to enter it.

Tobias Schlitt has picked by up his "comfortable PHP editing in VIM" series today with this lengthy post with loads of helpful VIM tips to share with PHP developers everywhere.

More than a half year after my last "Comfortable PHP editing with VIM" post, I take up this series again, although I decided to let it die in January. Sadly I did not find any time by now, to extend PDV (the PHP Documentor for VIM plugin) further than it's version 1.0.1, which is available through vim.org and on my SVN. Anyway, I collected a lot of (at least for me) helpful VIM tips, which I'd like to share here

The post contains tons of tips on subjects such as:

• Find matching brace
• Indenting and unindeting
• Emergency help
• Macros

and many more. For each subject, there's an explaination of a situation you might need it in and, of course, the tip itself. He also links to the earlier parts of the series (one through four) for those wanting to catch up.

For all of the content management systems that are out there, most of them have something in common (well, a lot in common, but that's more than I mean) - they all use databases to manage their information. Sometimes, that's just not what a developer really needs. All they want is a simple, light, file-based solution. Well, this new tutorial from Sitecritic.net can help. It details the creation of a simple file-based management system, including login abilities.

A Content Management System (CMS) allows you to update your website easily without touching anything in the backend. If you are a non-IT person, you will almost always want a CMS for your website because it makes you less dependent on your web designers or developers to add, edit or delete contents in your website.

There are many good CMS out there but most of them require some sort of database access in the backend. Many PHP CMS uses mysql or postgres database which resides in the server. Installation and troubleshooting of CMS might require some technical knowledge and server configuration which could be daunting for some.

The tutorial steps you through the login form first, then creating the template HTML files, before adding in the adding and editing functionality to store the content in the files. The full source for the application is also available for download.

In this new article (Part 1) from Leon Kilat on the Cybercafe Experiments, he takes a look at how to use a popular web site development tool, Dreamweaver, to modify WordPress templates.

WordPress, like most PHP-MySQL CMS, use template files to control the appearance of websites. The webpage is assembled from several PHP files controlling specific aspects of the site like the header, sidebar, main content and footer.

To use Dreamweaver to edit or customize WordPress themes, you need to combine these different PHP files into one page so that you can immediately view, while editing the codes, how the page would appear.

He opts to go with a template named Zimpleza for simplicity's sake, and gets right into it. He steps through the process you'll need to prepare the environment, including pulling over the code and HTML from the current template files into Dreamweaver. Then, remove the PHP code and insert dummy content to get a better idea of how it will be laid out.

This is just a start - part two, focusing on creation (versus just modification) of a new WordPress theme.

From this quick post (on Jeremiah's blog) we learn how to create a simple proxy for your web surfing needs with the help of Ubuntu Linux, Apache2, and PHP4.

Using Ubuntu Linux, Apache2, & PHP4 we can set up our own PHP Proxy page to use at work or school for those web sites you probably shouldn't have access to.

The linux installation isnt covered, but the painless installs of the rest of the apps is summed up in a few simple lines. Following that, he shows you what needs to be edited in the Apache config and where to get the PHP proxy application from.

On PHPit.net today, there's a new tutorial that talks about the creation of a web-based file manager you can use to keep track of things from anywhere you have web access.

Moving files across multiple computers can often be a problem, and synchronization is one of the biggest problems. What if you could simply store your files in one place, and access it on each computer? With PHP that's no problem, and in this tutorial you'll learn how to create your own simple file manager.

Our file manager will have four main features: uploading, editing, deleting and streaming (downloading) files. Everything can be done without having to touch an FTP program, which makes it a lot easier to quickly change something.

They start with the uploading feature (so you'll have something to even manage), and move into the reverse - downloading/streaming the files. After that, they describe the editing and deleting functionality. There's code for all of it too, so don't worry about having to work it all up on your own...