Create New Project: Specify Remote Server - HOW?

IDEA doesn't have such feature yet, it's available in WebStorm/PhpStorm products. The help will be updated, sorry for the inconvenience.

This response is helping me understand something.

I have read several posts that state that WebStorm is build on the IntelliJ foundation and contains a sub-set of the features. In fact, it appears that it is a super-set (in some features) of a sub-set of IntelliJ.

I have a developer in my group who wants to build Web projects (mostly HTML, CSS and some JavaScript). I was planning to have them use IntelliJ because they may need even more features later. However, it seems that this is a bad idea given that WebStorm supports some very nice features for Web development that are not available in IntelliJ (such as working directly with a remote server).

Can you confirm my analysis that WebStorm is a super-set of a sub-set of IntelliJ features?

Thanks -- Randy

Hello Randy,

No, WebStorm is a strict subset of the IntelliJ features. Working directly
with a remote server (or, rather, automatic synchronization of local changes
with a remote server over FTP or SFTP) is available both in IntelliJ IDEA
and in WebStorm.

This response is helping me understand something.

I have read several posts that state that WebStorm is build on the
IntelliJ foundation and contains a sub-set of the features. In fact,
it appears that it is a super-set (in some features) of a sub-set of
IntelliJ.

I have a developer in my group who wants to build Web projects (mostly
HTML, CSS and some JavaScript). I was planning to have them use
IntelliJ because they may need even more features later. However, it
seems that this is a bad idea given that WebStorm supports some very
nice features for Web development that are not available in IntelliJ
(such as working directly with a remote server).

Can you confirm my analysis that WebStorm is a super-set of a sub-set
of IntelliJ features?

--
Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"

I don't understand. You said Intellij IDEA had remote project/SFTP support, Serge Baranovs said it had not. So what's the truth? And, if it has, how to use it?

WebStorm (also RubyMine, PHPStorm etc) do not like to be a strict  subset of IntelliJ IDEA at all. For instance PHPStorm can create new project based on the directory (File -> Open Directory), and Intellij IDEA - cannot. I know that Intellij IDEA Ultimate has support for many languages, but it is not clear how to create new PHP project from existing sources at all.

I said that there is no option to create a new project from the remote server in IDEA. FTP/SFTP deployment feature is there once you already have a local copy of the project:
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/deployment.html.

Project configuration part is indeed different in the products based on IDEA platform and in IDEA itself. We've simplified it as much as possible for WebStorm/PhpStorm, while in IDEA supporting multiple languages and frameworks it cannot be that simple.

To create a Web/PHP module in IDEA you should use Java module at the moment, but there will be a separate module type for such projects in the next IDEA versions:
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/IDEA-63305.