Question

I have a PHP project sat on a remote server.

Can I create a new project in Eclipse by downloading the sources from the remote server.

If so, some instructions on how to do so please.

Answer 1

There is no direct way to do that, at least with standard install of Eclipse PHP

You would usually use “File > Import…” or “File > New Project > PHP Project…” menus for that, but I have never seen this option anywhere in Eclipse.

So this is one of three solutions :

• get a local copy of the php code
• import from source repository (e.g SVN, CVS, Git). (you do use one of these for your project, do you ?)
• switch to another IDE, NetBeans, which support “PHP Application from Remote Server”, while being lighter IMHO.