How to get started deploying PHP applications from a subversion repository?

Question

I\'ve heard the phrase \"deploying applications\" which sounds much better/easier/more reliable than uploading individual changed files to a server, but I don\'t know where

Answer 1

It depends on your application and how solid the tests are.

Where I work everything gets checked into the repository for review and is then released.

Auto updating out of a repository wouldn't be smart for us, as sometimes we just check in so that other developers can pull a later version and merge there changes in.

To do what you are talking about would need some sort of secondary check in and out to allow for collaboration between developers in the primary check in area. Although I don't know anything about that or if its even possible.

There is also issues with branching and other like features that would need to be handled.