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Using Actions to
Increase
Productivity

Actions make PHPEdit
extremely customizable.
You can create actions
that are calling PHPEdit
commands. You ever think
of when you want to save
a file and have code
beautifier cycle through
it, upload it through FTP
or commit it to
subversion/svn?

Actions make this
possible. If you are
finding yourself doing
operations consistently
that could be automated
in some aspect Actions
are for you.

To get started, you
need to know a little
about the PHPEdit
commands. Navigate to
Tools -> Script Command
Editor. Here you can
right click and create a
custom script that later
you can add as an action.

My script looks like
this:
CodeBeautifierExecute
FileSave
FTPPublishActiveDocumen
t

What this does is allow
me to execute code
beautifier, save the file
and bring up the dialog
to publish to FTP.

The next step is to go
to Tools -> Edit
Preferences. Navigate to
Graphical user interface
-> Actions. Click New
Action. Add your script
into the Script section.
Give it a caption and
category. Then bind it
to a shortcut (I gave
this one Ctrl + Alt + P).
You can also give it
certain Contexts to run
in by setting specific
types of documents to run
on, etc.

I hope this quick tip
gave you ideas for
creating your own actions
that produce more
efficient productivity!