Have you been relentlessly tryiung to get zend studio to work with a www.sourceforge.net account on a windows platform? After reading this article ZDE (Zend Studio) should be working fine with sourceforge.

First there are a few things you will need.

• Sourceforge.net account Yes if you do not have one of these yet you might want to go and visit their site and grab an account. Also be sure to register a project after you register your account.
  
  
  
• Zend Studio (I am using 3.5.1) You can get a demo version or a full version from www.zend.com
  
  
• Putty (And a few other tools from this site) You will need the following files from this site
  putty.exe
  pageant.exe
  plink.exe
  puttygen.exe
  
  you can get them here http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
  

Now click generate and move your mouse randomly around the blank area to generate your keys. Once the generation step is completed you will see something like the following.

Now save both your public and private key�s, you can choose to protect your private keyt with a pass phrase incase someone gets their hands on your private key they cannot takeover your entire system. I did this with mine ;D

Now that you have saved these files you can close PuttyGen.

Next you need to login to your sourceforge.net account and upload your public key to your user account, not your project account. To do this you need to go the the my �sf.net� area, click on account options and scroll down until you see a section named

Host Access Information

From this section you can add your key, once you load your public key you need to wait a while. Sourceforge only updates these every 6 hours or so.

3.) Setting up your private key is almost as easy ;)

Start pageant.exe and you will see it load into your system tray, right click it and go to Add Key, browse for the directory where you saved your private key, select it and click Open, if you protected it with a pass phrase it will ask you for that now. You only need to do this when you startup windows, every time you will need to add your key.

4.) Moving on to get zend studio running with sourceforge.net. Now that you have the rest of this setup there is one last step, you need to create an Environment Variable. To do this right click on My Computer, click on properties, click on the advanced tab. Now you should see a button with Environment Variables listed on it, Click that, then click New.

Variable Name: CVS_RSH
Variable Value: Your Path To plink.exe

Once you enter these values click ok and close all the windows we just opened, if Zend Studio is open, close it. Then re-open it.

4.) Zends Actual Settings. Click on Tools -> CVS -> Checkout

you will see a dialog, you will need to fill in the following information

CVS Root: :ext:username@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/projectname/
Module Name: ModuleName (for my project I used NewsCenter)
Working Directory: (the path where you want the files downloaded to)

Click ok, if everything went ok, you should now have either a password box asking you for your sourceforge password or you will see it checkout the files.


Joseph Crawford Jr.
jcrawford@codebowl.com