Posted by Bevan on April 8, 2008 at 1:18am
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| Project: | Save-to-File |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Miscellaneous |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
For your information, I use the "It's All Text!" module for Firefox to do this. I find it very effective and useful.
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#1
Hey, Nice!
I gave the plugin a go, works great! That will be handy, for sure.
There would be a couple potential benefits to using a site-specific solution like Save-to-File:
1. Since files are saved in the file section on the web site, they be added to version control
2. It opens up some possibilities for working in tandem with other folks using version control with areas of a site that can normally be edited via the Drupal configuration.
3. Save-to-file can be used to back up complex settings.
4. The changes that you make in your editor can saved and refreshed in a browser. With "It's All Text!", you can edit the content of a textarea, but not preview it quickly.
If you'd like to be able to use your editor for auto-completion, syntax highlighting and indentation, "It's All Text" is definitely a quicker workflow.
Thanks for the tip!
Chris
#2
Another related tip, you can always set drupal variables (how most settings are stored) in settings.php with the $conf array. Obviously you can also version-control settings.php.
#3