Running Eclipse php project from a shared folder

Question

I have been using Eclipse Kepler along with PDT tools on local system to manage PHP projects and its turned out to be a better choice for me then the other editors around. Only problem I've found in this environment is that content assist is only available when you open a file residing in the workspace.

Now my problem, I am assigned to work on a PHP Project which is on another system on the local LAN network. Is there any way I can add that project folder to eclipse? so that I can directly edit and save the files on the remote system?

Things I can't look into for various reasons

• Using a version control system
• Copy source files to local system work on them and then upload it (kinda have to add the remote files to the local eclipse project).
• Do any modifications on the target system for my convinence eg. Adding an FTP server.

Thanks

Answer 1

I managed to get what I want by creating what you call a Symbolic Link in c:\wamp\www (using WAMP) folder which is also my eclipse workspace, for the network shared project I wanted to import into Eclipse. To do this open an elevated command prompt and run this command

mklink /d projectname \\network_shared_folder

/d option creates a directory symbolic link. Now, the network project will be available as a local project on the web root which can be easily imported into Eclipse (or any other IDE)

Hope this comes in handy for someone who stumbles upon this problem. Now I can get content assist for any file in the project.

Thanks.

Answer 2

In the project explorer if not exist create a new project then:

1) right-click the project and select New > Folder

2) Specify a name for the folder

3) click on Advanced

4) Check Link to alternate location (Linked Folder)

5) Enter a file system path, or click Browse to select a folder in the file system.

6) Click Finish

Check here for more Creating Linked Resources on Eclipse

Answer 3

After hours of searching, I share the solution finally found: symbolic links are not usable if the project is managed via git. Another solution is to use the fileSync plug-in (http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/filesync) to automatically copy folders from the source project to user projects.