Uploading PHP remotely

[#1]

I cannot believe the only way to upload PHP content is via my home (plusnet) network? What do I do if I'm on holiday, and I need to make an ugent change to my code? Is there another way of doing this?
Cheers

[#2]

Yes - you need to leave your PC on all the time and set up remote access to your PC.

[#3]

Not sure how effective it would be but you could install a file manager solution like this on your CGI space?

[#4]

I wonder if that would lead to ownership/permissions problems?

[#5]

I installed a copy on my webspace a while back. I'd check if I could remember what I set my passwords to!

[#6]

What I used to do was to just have the ccgi file contain an include statement in an otherwise nearly blank PHP page:

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<?php include('http://www.username.f9.co.uk/afile.php'); ?>

I used that include statement to include the contents of a specific file from my homepages server space, which contained all of the PHP that I really wanted in the ccgi server file.
Then I was able to edit and upload the homepages PHP code file, which was then included and processed when the ccgi file program was run.
Being able to do an include from a different server was one of the things that got thrown out with the bathwater when the new ccgi system was installed - so I can't do that now - unless anyone knows of a switch which will make it available again...
Tony

[#7]

Quote from: Bob

you could install a file manager solution like this on your CGI space?

I haven't tested this particular variant but the phrases "google hack", "coach and horses" and "barge pole" spring to mind. 
Gabe

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[#9]

Quote from: Tony

Being able to do an include from a different server was one of the things that got thrown out with the bathwater when the new ccgi system was installed - so I can't do that now - unless anyone knows of a switch which will make it available again...

This wasn't "thrown out with the bathwater" - we made a concious decision to not allow this access. Remote includes are disabled by default since PHP 5.2.0, and sloppy use of include was the cause of the vast majority of PHP related security issues we saw on the old platform.
I can understand that this change was inconvenient for some people but we really couldn't justify allowing remote includes as they are so easily exploitable.