Zend Studio question re: switching between tasks/projects

[Daevid Vincent]

I realize this is a smidge off topic.

I manage probably 30+ web sites and thousands of files (php, js, html, etc.)
Often times I'm working on a project which may be a few days to a few weeks.
Then my boss asks me to do something else "real quick" (fix a bug, add a
feature, whatever). It's so annoying to have to close down the project I'm
working on (specifically the files I have open in the tabs), switch to new
files/projects for an hour or less, close those all down, then try to
remember all the other files I had open. After years of this, I finally had
enough today and started to try and look into this - surely I'm not the
first person with this problem.

Honestly, I've never understood what a "workspace" is for - maybe THIS is
it? Seems clunky though if so as it saves the whole layout and all that
stuff I don't want to change. Plus I don't see a way to "Save Workspace". I
see a "Switch Workspace" curiously enough.

The next thing I looked at - which SEEMS like it'd logically be the right
thing - is "Working Sets". After doing some silliness to enable this (which
seems like it should be enabled by default to me). It doesn't actually DO
anything that I can tell? I have some files open. I go to "Window > Working
Set > Edit > New." I have tried both "PHP" and "Script Working Set". Then I
save it. I close all the files down, and choose the working set, but nothing
happens? I was hopeful that all the files/projects at the time of save (or
checkboxed) would have opened up and I'd do some kind of nerd dance.
Instead, I just sobbed a little bit.

Related, is there a way to search (and/or replace) on JUST the files I have
open and NOT the whole project or selected resource? I see an option for
"working set" which makes me think that's what I want again, but since it
doesn't seem to do anything as mentioned, I'm confused.

I also submitted this on the Zend Forums too in case you prefer to answer
there.
http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=59
<http://forums.zend.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=116118> &t=116118

[Andrew Ballard]

Post by Daevid Vincent
I realize this is a smidge off topic.
I manage probably 30+ web sites and thousands of files (php, js, html, etc.)
Often times I'm working on a project which may be a few days to a few weeks.
Then my boss asks me to do something else "real quick" (fix a bug, add a
feature, whatever). It's so annoying to have to close down the project I'm
working on (specifically the files I have open in the tabs), switch to new
files/projects for an hour or less, close those all down, then try to
remember all the other files I had open. After years of this, I finally had
enough today and started to try and look into this - surely I'm not the
first person with this problem.
Honestly, I've never understood what a "workspace" is for - maybe THIS is
it? Seems clunky though if so as it saves the whole layout and all that
stuff I don't want to change. Plus I don't see a way to "Save Workspace". I
see a "Switch Workspace" curiously enough.

Workspaces seems to be the way to go. I think every change you make to
the actual workspace (not often) itself is saved real-time. It seems
to do well enough at remembering what files I had open. It is a bit of
a pain that it has to close and reopen the entire editor to switch,
and it is a huge pain that if you can't simply select the workspace
you want from the recently used list, you have to be careful typing
the name. If you type it incorrectly, Zend Studio will create a brand
new workspace with the new name. (At least it does in version 9. I
haven't tried anything newer.)

Post by Daevid Vincent
The next thing I looked at - which SEEMS like it'd logically be the right
thing - is "Working Sets". After doing some silliness to enable this (which
seems like it should be enabled by default to me). It doesn't actually DO
anything that I can tell? I have some files open. I go to "Window > Working
Set > Edit > New." I have tried both "PHP" and "Script Working Set". Then I
save it. I close all the files down, and choose the working set, but nothing
happens? I was hopeful that all the files/projects at the time of save (or
checkboxed) would have opened up and I'd do some kind of nerd dance.
Instead, I just sobbed a little bit.

Haven't looked at "Working Sets".

Post by Daevid Vincent
Related, is there a way to search (and/or replace) on JUST the files I have
open and NOT the whole project or selected resource? I see an option for
"working set" which makes me think that's what I want again, but since it
doesn't seem to do anything as mentioned, I'm confused.

I don't believe you can search all open files. You can select one or
more files and/or folders from the PHP Explorer and then search
"Selected Resources" which is close.

Andrew