I apologize in advance if this has been asked and answered before. I was earching for some help but didn't find anything appropriate. While there are sufficient HowTos for starting programming with Aptana Studio (AS), I didn't find any that helps moving a project from another IDE to AS. There are some specialties:
My project is entirely in PHP. I have all the files of the project stored locally in a folder which is the base folder of the local web server, so I can check programming results locally before uploading them. However, AS must also upload changed files to the server which is accessible publicly.
When I start a project in AS, I am told that the folder which contains my project contains files (logically), and I am not allowed to use this location. So would I have to start with an empty folder and then copy the files into that folder? Seems dumb to me. Besides, then I would have to copy files to two different servers: the local one for testing and the public one for release. Would that be supported by AS?
Is there a HowTo for this kind of scenario? Or can someone kindly explain how to go about it to get started with AS? I may be blind for the obvious, somethimes conceptual approaches are different to how my mind works, but it's pretty adjustable once I know how it works.
I can't use my previous IDE any longer, it's been abandoned for a long time by the programmer and misses more and more needed functions, and it doesn't work anymore under current OSs.