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Bump - Desperately need a good system for having separate development files to public files.

Yes, I have an ubuntu server and I'm working from a windows computer. I only have one server so would having a dev and public folder be fine? I could password protect the dev folder. I would also have to duplicate all databases, should I set up another MYSQL account?

At the moment I edit the live files of my website using FTP which means changes take affect instantly. This is bad for numerous reasons. I figured that I would have to duplicate my website files and edit them instead to make it so I'm not editing the live files. What's the best way to do this? Would you create a "dev" directory, place the duplicated website files there, edit them, then upload when your happy with the update?

This doesn't work with smilies that have a number or letter at the beginning - xD 0.o This one works perfectly but if you find an expression that's faster then please post it. Thanks for all your help.

I get the following error when using that regex: Warning: preg_replace(): Compilation failed: lookbehind assertion is not fixed length at offset 10 This is the code I used: $post = ''; $post = preg_replace('/(?<=(^|\W)):\)(?=($|\W))/m', '\1<img src="smiley.png" />\2', $post); echo $post;

Your solution works exactly how I want it to apart from one thing. $string = ' :) '; When this string is processed, only the middle smiley gets replaced by an image because the other two have nothing next to them. Is there any way of allowing there to be nothing next to the smiley as well as a non alphanumeric character? Thanks for your help.

This works great but doesn't work on the following smilies (which all have a number or letter in them): > 0.o How can I fix this? Thanks.

I have the following code to replace a smile with an image: $post = '.'; $post = preg_replace('#\W:\)\W#', '<img src="smile.png" />', $post); It only replaces the smiley if it's not next to an alpha-numeric character. The problem I have with this is that it also replaces the characters beside it (in this case it's a fullstop) but I want to keep them. Is there any way to check for \W and not replace it?