Creating a new page type or editing an existing one?

Question

whenever i create a new document, i select blank page then under page type list several diffent page types. i would like to edit an existing one or create a custom one. for example, every time i create a new document i have to clear out the code and type the following...
<?php
require_once('classes/class.layout.php');
$layout = new Layout;
$layout->page_title = 'This can be different each page';
$layout->render_header();
$layout->render_footer();
?>
i tried to create a template but it always wants editable regions and i don't want it to be stuck using that system. i would like the above code to be typed out every time i create a new document. is this possible? do i have to edit some kind of system file that's xml or js? i'm using CS5 and i'm on a mac.

Answer 1

this is exactly what i was looking for! thank you murray! i created my own Page Type and it shows it. all you have to do is add your custom document type.
inside the DocumentTypes folder you will find the MMDocumentTypes.xml file. this file contains all of the default dreamweaver document types: html, asp, php, asp.net, etc. you can add your entries here, just use the same structure. it's safer not to modify it but create your own. so i created a CustomDocumentTypes.xml file. i just used camel-case to keep the file names consistent. according to documentation, dreamweaver checks this directory and uses the settings it reads off the xml files. so as long as it's a well formed xml file, it will try to read it. if not, it will ignore it.
next i created my default page in the NewDocuments directory. i restarted dreamweaver and there it was.