Opening a local file in Eclipse from the web - php

Right now, when I notice a problem on a page on my PHP web site, I have to look at the URL, mentally deduce what file is responsible for displaying that page, then navigate the Eclipse PDT file tree to open that file. This is annoying and uses brain power that could have been applied to solving the issue instead.
I would like my PHP web site to display on every page a link that I could click to automatically open the correct file in Eclipse.
I can easily compute the complete absolute path for the file I need to open (for example, open C:/xampp/htdocs/controllers/Foo/Bar.php when visiting /foo/bar), and I can make sure that Eclipse is currently open with the correct project loaded, but I'm stuck on how I can have Firefox/Chrome/IE tell Eclipse to open that specific file.
Edit
I'm going along the way of a data: URI, by adding a link to my file that contains the name of the file, with an unusual MIME type.
<a href="data:link/php;base64,IkM6XHhhb[snip]GhwIgo=">
View controller
</a>
The base64-encoded content is the absolute path to the file on my computer. When I click the link, Firefox lets me bind the content type to a new application, so I chose a batch file I wrote myself:
for /f "delims=" %%i in (%1) do (
notepad.exe "%%i"
)
This works. Now, I would like the file to be opened in the already opened window of Eclipse. What do I have to replace notepad.exe with in the above batch?


[pathtoeclipse]\eclipsec.exe -name Eclipse --launcher.openFile [fullpathtoyourfilehere]
I am not sure if it works with Galileo (i am on Helios)
Further reading: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4922 (it is a long, long story)


I've tried similar things in the past, but this isn't as easy as it should be. The end result was always that Firefox would need an extension to execute a local file (I never found one that would do the job), and IE won't do it at all any more (save, maybe, for some complicated proprietary VBScript/WScript).
I see two workarounds to do this:
A function that displays the file path on your page in a big fat dialog window, making it easy to copy and paste into the Windows + R "Execute" Dialog
Alternatively, registering a custom Protocol (e.g. eclipse://) in your operating system, and tying that protocol to Eclipse. This is a pretty great way actually, I haven't tried this yet but definitely will in the next project I need this. Mozillazine: Register protocol (see the .reg file example)


You get the local path with FILE.
Maybe you try something like this?
<?php
'127.0.0.1' == $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"] and print __FILE__;
?>


Is integrating Eclipse with Xdebug an option? I've done this with TextMate so that generated error messages are clickable to take me to the correct line in the right file. (See this question for details).

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How to use VSCode to remotely edit website files?

I need to be able to remotely log into web servers for my clients and edit code remotely. I mostly use this for CSS changes, but also am starting to play with PHP as well.
I have tried to get Remote-Editor to work but it won't pick up the .remote file that I placed in the /home folder. The instructions don't really give great details on setting this up.
What do I do?

Use FileZilla, then set VScode as default editor (edit->settings->file editing->filetype associations and insert "php /usr/bin/code"). okey, now u need select your file on FTP and press "View/Edit", then ur file open in VScode editor. Done:)

Use an FTP client (like FileZilla), then set VSCode as the default editor. Anytime you open a file, it will open it in VSCode. I highly recommend that you download all of the code to your own computer and use it as a dev environment, and then, when you're finished with your changes, backup your site, then upload the modified files together. It's not required to edit files on your own machine, but it is recommended if you ever need to revert to an old version for whatever reason (like you made a mistake in the code, and now nothing works right).
Alternatively, you can use an extension like FTP Sync to code locally, and have the files be automatically synced for you.

Open Filezilla -> Edit -> Settings -> File Editing -> Filetype associations
Now you will have "Custom filetype associations:" situated on the right pane of the window.
Over there you have to write the command for opening VSCode for PHP files.
Step 1: Search and locate the VSCode Exe file setup install directory on your computer. In my case it was (C:\Users\Shubham\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code/Code.exe)
Step 2: Copy the directory path link of the ".exe" file and come back to the "Custom filetype associations:" inside Filezilla.
Step 3: Now type "php" then give space & paste the directory path that you have copied inside double quotes and then again give space and write "-open". The final code should look something like this
php "C:\Users\Shubham\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code/Code.exe" -open
Step 4: Click the Okay Button and have a coffee.

There are several approaches to this that are all editor-agnostic.
First, there is sshfs, which is cross-platform and you can install via your OS package manager. A simple approach would be as following:
mkdir -p ~/mnt/server
sshfs user#server.example.com:/path/on/server ~/mnt/server
Afterwards, you have the complete folder structure from server.example.com locally available at ~/mnt/server. Make sure you set up SSH keys to avoid entering the user password every time. You can find tutorials on that everywhere on the net.
For servers that only offer FTP access (shared hosting and the like), you can use curlftpfs in the same fashion.
To close the connection, simply unmount:
umount ~/mnt
For a GUI-based approach, you have several options. There is Transmit (macOS), which features mounting connections as volumes, Forklift (macOS) which is a Finder replacement that can do the same, ExpanDrive (macOS/Windows) and my favorite Mountain Duck (macOS/Windows).
If you plan to move lots of data, especially a lot of small files, Mountain Duck performs the best in my experience.

Just type this is Filezilla Settings->File Editing-> File Association
php /snap/bin/code

Open Filezilla and go to Edit >> Settings
Click on File Editing, and set the radio button to use Custom Editor
In the text field below you need to enter the full path to Visual Studio Code, this is usually found in the /usr/bin/ directory, so you need to enter the following /usr/bin/code
Next select the radio button Always use default editor and click OK to finalise the settings.

Most of the answers I see are for Windows. If anyone wants to associate File Types using Linux in Filezilla, the path is a bit different.
htm /snap/bin/code --force-user-env --no-sandbox --unity-launch
html /snap/bin/code --force-user-env --no-sandbox --unity-launch
js /snap/bin/code --force-user-env --no-sandbox --unity-launch
php /snap/bin/code --force-user-env --no-sandbox --unity-launch
You do not need to use the extra flags, but they are being used in the Menu Shortcut, so I included them.

To set VS Code as default editor for all type of files in mac use below steps:-
Click on Edit menu
Then click on setting option
Then find out File Editing and click on it (Not on submenu(Filetype associations))
Click on custom editor and then browse in application or download and select VS Code. And also click on checkbox "Always use default editor" and then click ok.

open filezilla->edit->file editing->use custom editor->browse(find the visual code path)
for find visual code path->right click on the visual code and open location and paste that location to the browse menu and find the visual code short cut
after that press ok on filzilla it will work fine

It's important that you start Filezilla as an administrator. That was the reason why it wasn't working for me.

Open Filezilla -> Edit -> Settings -> File Editing -> Filetype associations then type:
php "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe" %f
Note: substitute <username> with your windows username
Bonus: php can be replace with any kind of file format. Just write file extension name on lowercase.

I used this registry update to set vscode as my default text file editor (copy & paste into update.reg, open regedit and import the file):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\text\shell\edit\command]
#=hex(2):22,00,25,00,55,00,53,00,45,00,52,00,50,00,52,00,4f,00,46,00,49,00,4c,\
00,45,00,25,00,5c,00,41,00,70,00,70,00,44,00,61,00,74,00,61,00,5c,00,4c,00,\
6f,00,63,00,61,00,6c,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,73,\
00,5c,00,4d,00,69,00,63,00,72,00,6f,00,73,00,6f,00,66,00,74,00,20,00,56,00,\
53,00,20,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,5c,00,43,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,2e,00,65,\
00,78,00,65,00,22,00,20,00,25,00,31,00,00,00
After that the registry is updated as follows:
Of course you should not trust hex encoded registry updates you found in the internet. So copy 22,00 ... 00,00, remove all backslashes, linebreaks and whitespaces and convert through one of many hex to ascii online converters to verify the import:
After you made this change you can even edit text files with vscode through the "edit" context menu entry:

How do I get PHPStorm to use the correct path for CSS?

I have been using "Delphi PHP XE2". The file structure has worked fine for over a year on the development machine and the production.
The folders are organised as follows.
src/app_login.php
src/add
src/css
src/js
src/fnc
src/db
src/images
etc.
I am just trying out PHPSTORM. The include files work fine. When I run it in Firefox it can find all images, JavaScript files, etc. But it can not find the CSS files as it is looking for them in
css
rather than
src/css
I haven't changed anything.
Why is the browser now looking at absolute path rather than relative?
How did PHPStorm manage to tell it that?
And how do I coerce it to treat them as relative paths?
I see that in the browser it runs it as:
http://localhost:63342/SRC/app_login.php
instead of
http://localhost:63342/app_login.php
I guess this the problem. How do I coerce it to move down one directory level?
I am trying to set up IIS, I think this might be best for later on. Here are the screen shots:
I configured the hosts file so that when I type wys.com in the browser it tries to run it and shows a blank page. If I type in 192.168.1.0 it just shows a blank page. View Source shows nothing. I was expecting it to run the index.html at d:\wys\src. Why is the browser not running it?

You are using PhpStorm's own simple built-in web server which uses URLs like http://localhost:63342/ProjectName/app_login.php. You cannot make http://localhost:63342/app_login.php using such server as it will not be able to tell what files to serve.
Either use your own Apache/IIS/whatever web server .. or the best you can get with built-in server would be http://ProjectName:63342/app_login.php(IDE needs to know what site/files to serve somehow). For that:
Edit your hosts file (or local DNS server, if preferred and have one) and point ProjectName to your computer's IP (e.g. 127.0.0.1).
Create Deployment entry of correct type (In Place should do), configure it (provide desired URL etc -- http://ProjectName:63342/) and mark it as Default for this project -- now IDE will use URL from there when generating "open in browser" URLs.

Using Brackets for PHP files

I currently have wampserver running and I'm trying to do live preview of a php file using Brackets.io. However when I click live preview I'm getting
Project settings for: Getting Started
Live preview base URL: ______________
I'm following this tutorial on running PHP scripts.
My php file is in C:/wamp/wwww/php_proj1/php1.php so I've been trying to put this in my "Base URL"
http://localhost/php_proj1/php1.php
However everytime when I type that and enter it, it just asks me for the "Live Preview Base URL" again and nothing happens. I also tried putting the URL in my 'File->Project settings' and that also didn't work. I'm just running a basic php script that echos some words.
It works when I manually type
http://localhost/php_proj1/php1.php
in my Chrome URL but not when I use Bracets live preview.
What am I missing or doing wrong? Do I need to config anything in my wampserver? I've just started learning php and using wampserver so I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks!
EDIT: I'm following these 2 tutorials on doing this and it's just not working for me.
tutorial 1 and tutorial 2
EDIT2: Found my mistake.. I did not do File->Open Folder to open the folder that I was working on... Thanks to everyone that helped me with this, I will definitely not make this mistake again. sigh

The Live Preview Base Url should be set to the same url that you would use to launch your project in a browser.
So if you have a project in C:/wamp/wwww/php_proj1/ you would launch that project in a browser by entering http://localhost/php_proj1/php1.php therefore that is what Brackets is expecting to be entered into the Base Url field minus the actual script file name.
Remember the DocumentRoot of localhost is pointing to the folder C:/wamp/www/
So enter
http://localhost/php_proj1/
into the dialog that requests the Base Url.
Assuming you are editing the file php1.php at the time you clicked the Live Preview icon that is the script that will be run in the browser.
Oh and of course you have to have WAMPServer and therefore Apache up and running when you do this as it is running the code through Apache so that the PHP code can be interpreted.

Found my mistake. I did not do File->Open Folder to open the folder that I was working on...

Try the same thing but with a simple HTML file.
Try launching your project with PHP's built-in server. Open a terminal/cmd window and go to the folder php_proj1. Now execute php -S localhost:8000. Now set your Live preview path to http://localhost:8000/. If this one does work, then there may be a problem with Wamp.
Now remember that no matter what, you're not supposed to contain a file in the Live Preview path, but only a folder path. When you contain it, you get to this URL: http://server/file.php/file.php (double) and that's not exactly what you want...
If none of these work - there may be a problem with either your computer, Brackets, Chrome, or both. Try to reinstall them (Brackets first).

My two cents, is the name of the project php_proj1 ? If not you'll have to use http://localhost/ as your base URL.
Also (When you are using Brackets) check the content of the Chrome Network tab. F12 Developer Tools -> Network -> Filter -> Documents
Try to investigate the URLs, probably that'll give you some insight

PHP files will not stop opening locally

I am not sure what is going on here but I was working on configuring my apache server today but after a load of hassle gave up and just installed MAMP instead. Problem is that now when I open a local php file as soon as it opens another one opens until I close Firefox. When I open the file with Chrome all that is displayed is code? A page is fine until I change the extension from .html to .php
It makes no difference where the file is located (ie local host or desktop).
Has anyone else had this problem? I suspect it may be something to do with installing apache manually and then MAMP? Something must have gone wrong along the way.
Perhaps it is possible to completely uninstall apache and start again, but I have no idea how to do this!
Thank you for any help,
Margate

Doubling clicking PHP files in a File Explorer type thing or opening from the file system with the Open dialog of a browser will open them as regular HTML or Text (depending on the browser). To get them to work as PHP you have to go as if to a webpage, since PHP code is interpreted by the webserver not the browser. I.e. http://localhost/somefile.php
And make sure links to PHP pages in your site are relative links. I.e. <a href='/somefile.php'>Somefile</a> and not file system links, i.e. <a href='file:///c:\webroot\somefile.php'>Somefile</a>. PHP has to go through the server. The same goes for HTML files too. If you serve filesystem links, the links will not work for anyone else anyway.

How to hide apache server version?

1] When i open any web page & view source it. We have JS & CSS. While click on that i'm able to see each JS & CSS file.
Can we manage it like while on click .js & .css file not open
2] Website hosted on linux server. Through tools hackers are able to view Apache server version. Any way to hide it?

No, JavaScript and CSS files are open to the browser, hence they are opened to the user. You can try to obfocusate them, but that will only stall a determined user.
The server version is shown when an error (404, 500) occurs, you can override that default message with your own pages using .htaccess.

CSS and JS files will be seen by anyone and everyone . They work on HTTP ;) BTW... what you want to hide is your server-side code, like asp,jsp,php. The source code of those files cannot be seen.
To your second question:
Open your .htaccess and put the following it.
ServerSignature Off
This way, for any error, it will not show what server or version you are using.
Hope it answers you :)

When an user gets programm he gets code which will be executed. On the desktop it may be binary data for example. In web development there is no binary data, browser gets code, so user does. You may only obfocusate it.

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