Team Programming Project Help

[Tornation]

I require a way for me and a friend to collaborate on a php project live from 2 different machines. Me and my friend are both doing this for a project in our high-school programming course.

Here is our very specific scenario:

- I own a small low-power server running linux-mint and apache httpd, which runs our project

-Me and my friend both have machines at school running windows 7 (No admin privileges on these machines)

All we really need is simple text editing, but features like being able to work on the same file at once would be very nice. If that requires us to run another server off the linux machine to manage that would be fine. I'm not sure if their is any IDE or other solution that could accomplish what I'm explaining.

ANY help would be appreciated!

 

[KuJoe]

Why not use Google Docs? You can create a document and both edit it at the same time. 100% free and always available.

[Stardar1]

uhh, Github???

[Tornation]

Just now, KuJoe said:

Why not use Google Docs? You can create a document and both edit it at the same time. 100% free and always available.

Idealy the file would be synced up with the server directory on my linux machine. Also I don't believe Google docs will edit and save raw text documents or php files properly, it is intended for formatted rtf documents and the such.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

uhh, Github???

Github pages is static only. That means no php, however if you meant still hosting it via apache then it should work fine. As long as you can somehow get the server to stay up to date with commits.

[Stardar1]

Just now, whitephoenix said:

Github pages is static only. That means no php, however if you meant still hosting it via apache then it should work fine.

missed the "live". reread now. Sorry.

[Clanscorpia]

School computers usually have windows, you can colab on Word projects, you've been able to since 2010 but in 365 it is more streamlined

[Tornation]

1 minute ago, Clanscorpia said:

School computers usually have windows, you can colab on Word projects, you've been able to since 2010 but in 365 it is more streamlined

We aren't working on word documents....

[KuJoe]

I've used https://shiftedit.net/ in the past when collaborating with other classmates many years ago. I forget how it handles live editing but it does do FTP uploading.

[Tornation]

1 minute ago, KuJoe said:

I've used https://shiftedit.net/ in the past when collaborating with other classmates many years ago. I forget how it handles live editing but it does do FTP uploading.

I will look into it! Thanks!

[Clanscorpia]

3 minutes ago, Tornation said:

We aren't working on word documents....

I know, but you said you needed text and if your using windows and linux, .docx is basically the standard. I think it's your best bet, or if you can find visual studio PHP and can get 2 copies of pro you can both work on it at once

[Tornation]

5 minutes ago, KuJoe said:

I've used https://shiftedit.net/ in the past when collaborating with other classmates many years ago. I forget how it handles live editing but it does do FTP uploading.

I just tested it with a random ftp I already had running on my linux machine and it seems to work wonderfully! I will test later how it handles multiple users but at first glance this seems great. Not only is it web-based so I don't need to install anything on the school computers but it also will sync directly with my apache folder if configured correctly. Thank you so much for your help!