<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="613591009-15022006"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Do any of you use CVS when developing your sites?</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Yes - and it's invaluable. My preference is to use the Eclipse IDE [<A href="http://www.eclipse.org">http://www.eclipse.org</A>] with the PHPeclipse plug-in [<A href="http://www.phpeclipse.de">http://www.phpeclipse.de</A>]. Eclipse has support for team working using CVS built-in, making synchronisation, commits, etc a few clicks of the mouse.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is also plug-in support for Subversion (a replacement for CVS), but I don't have any experience using it. I was going to look into getting the Subversion plug-in working but was put off by a few configuration problems others on this list have reported in the past. I've not had the time to look into it again.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="613591009-15022006"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Majority of time I am programming on my own, so I program a site on my dev server then SCP the changes across to the live server when I am happy with it. However they are two other members of staff that occasionally make small alterations to the sites I work on, this can become a bit of a nightmare is all 3 people end up modifying the same pages/files at the same time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Even if working alone, it will help you greatly with managing versions, and can also act as an effective 'back-up' for when you inevitably break something that worked fine before (assuming you regularly commit working code). This is exacerbated when multiple developers, plus CVS will help you merge changes on a resource by made by more than one person.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><SPAN class="613591009-15022006"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">I haven't used CVS since the 2nd year of University (3 years ago) so only have a vague recollection of what it does and how it works, would any of you recommend using it for developing PHP sites with multiple developers, or do you have any alternative solutions to my problem?</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Have a look at the CVS page on Wikipedia [<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System]">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System]</A>. Subversion is the obvious alternative to using CVS. Either is a must-have in my book.</DIV><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV align="left"><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="613591009-15022006">Look forward to hearing your replies,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial"><FONT size="2"><SPAN class="613591009-15022006"></SPAN>Pete Graham</FONT></FONT></P><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">_______________________________________</FONT></P><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Internet Technical Officer 01952 642302</FONT></P><P><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Telford College of Arts & Technology</FONT></P><P><U><FONT color="#0000ff" size="2"><FONT face="Arial"><A href="http://www.tcat.ac.uk">http://www.tcat.ac.uk</A></FONT></FONT></U><FONT color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></P></DIV> <HR> This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by <STRONG><FONT color="#ff8000">NetIQ MailMarshal</FONT> </STRONG> <HR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Phpwm mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk">Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/phpwm">http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/phpwm</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>