Using PHP files in Dreamweaver?

When I create a new PHP file in Dreamweaver the code is the same as an HTML file, shouldn't be different? with php commands or something?
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When I create a new PHP file in Dreamweaver the code is the same as an HTML file, shouldn't be different? with php commands or something?
Not unless you add them. PHP is a server-side programming language. PHP web pages are no different than HTML pages except that they can parse data on the server. With the right include statements or commands, PHP or ASP pages can publish information from server-side databases to form a dynamically driven web site.
BUILDING DYNAMIC SITES in DW
Set up a local testing server in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/december2009/articles/article2/index.html
Setting up a PHP development environment for Dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setting_up_php_05.html
Building your first dynamic website – Part 1: Setting up your site and database connection
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_dynamic_site_pt1.html
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Even if I go "live view" and set - Web URL to: www.indochinaexplorers.com (my site) - instead of http://localhost, it comes up with a lot of PHP boxes.
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Have been through all possible settings and configurations under "Manage Site"
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I have the same issue and none of the alleged Guru's that answered have provided anything useful. Solid Web Design is about workflow, which could lead to innovation if people would stop reverse innovation language...Dreamweaver could be a viable wordpress solution if it worked as it's supposed to. CC is a bust as the focus has shifted to mobile first.
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Wordpress is dynamically driven but this is untrue. Every PHP file in a theme has structure and is a "real page". Fragments have to be in a "file" to be called, they are not called out of thin air. If I want to style page.php, it cannot be done without first adding selectors. #mainContent for example. The only thing php does is add dynamic functionality. Page.php can be altered and saved as Page_fullwidth.php, Page_Music.php ,Page_webDesign.php and they can all have a different layout in the same theme. Else there would be no templates to choose from in the static page section of the WP Admin area.
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How does this help?
Unless you are very familiar with PHP code and more specifically the PHP code WP uses, you will not have good results working in DW. You really must use the WP Dashboard to manage your content, Themes, and plugins.
This has nothing to do with the issue. The issue is Dreamweaver simply does not allow propper editing of wordpress sites in a dynamic environment. No one ever said they didn't know anything about php, creating wordpress themes, plugins, and so on...
Dear next genius..Since the question has already been asked, I won't ask it again, but the original inquiry is my issue as well. If you have figured out how to make this work, please respond, if not, please don't.
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Can't edit php files in dreamweaver, access to site root denied

Can anyone help me please?
I've recently purchased a Macbook Pro after my PCs failed on me and also had to get a Creative Suite Web Premium. I have always used Dreamweaver to edit my php files. In Windows XP, I had to run the programme to run as an Administrator to edit php files. Now I have not a clue how to do it on Mac! Each time I tried to save a php file, a dialog box appear stating: Access to Macintosh
HD:Library:Webserver:Documents:Untitled-1.php was denied
Regards
Sinead

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Open Preferences (Edit > Preferences) and switch to the
File
Types/Editors category. Make sure that .php (or whatever file
extension
you are using for your files) is *not* specified in the "open
in code
view" field.
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the code mode and
> won't let me select a browser to display either.

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PHP files in Dreamweaver

Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone has been unable to open php files.
When I try to open them Dreamweaver freezes. I have reinstalled CS3
and deleted all of the local files and downloaded them all over
again from the remote site but nothing seems to fix the
problem.

Excellent! I was wondering how to solve that since it was
happening to
me as well, i was even working on notepad++ in those files
with PHP and
just saw this thread.
Thank you so much for your answer Alan that definitively
solve the
problem so back to DWCS3 again :)
Alan wrote:
>
>> It happened to me on two separate computers on the
exact same day. It was the
>> same day CS4 was released and a Icon showed up in my
Cs3 telling me to go get
>> it. As soon as this icon appeared, my PHP files
started crashing Dreamweaver.
>> Search the net, many people encountered the exact
same thing that same week.
>>
>> Weird, but it happened.
>>
>
> Yes- but it had a different cause. Deleting the one
corrupt file is less
> drastic that deleting or renaming the entire
Configuration folder.
>
> TechNote
>
> Dreamweaver CS3 crashes after Daylight Savings Time ends
>
> Issue
>
>
> Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 crashes when working with certain
PHP or ASP files in
> Code view or Design view after the clock goes back one
hour, when Daylight
> Savings Time ends. The crashes only occur when selecting
certain lines in
> Code view, or selecting certain objects in Design view.
The crashes only
> occur in files that have PHP or ASP code, intermingled
with HTML code. The
> crashes do not occur in Dreamweaver 8 or earlier (Ref.
229536).
>
>
> Reason
>
>
> The Dreamweaver CS3 WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file has
been corrupted by the
> time change.
>
>
> Solution
>
>
> 1. If Dreamweaver is open, quit the application.
> 2. Delete the WinFileCache-AD76BB20.dat file from the
Dreamweaver user
> configuration folder. Note that on Windows, the
Application Data and AppData
> folders are hidden by default, so verify that your
Windows Explorer folder
> options are set to View Hidden Folders. The location of
this file is as
> follows:
> * Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows Vista:
> C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration
> * Dreamweaver CS3 on Windows XP:
> C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application
Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver
> 9\Configuration
> 3. Restart Dreamweaver.
>
>
> Keywords
>
> Code/Design view, Daylight Savings Time, Dreamweaver,
crashes
>
> TechNote Details
> Last Update: 11-05-2007
> ID: kb402776
>

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setting up a php site in dreamweaver.
I am taking a class in PHP. I am following instructions to set up my work environment in Dreamweaver. I am using an Imac, dual core, running snow leopard, and have loaded xampp onto my machine. Dreamweaver version CS3.
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Hola
I download my friend's site and ALL the pages are in a folder with the file name index.php ... WHY?
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Inside this folder, a file with the name index.php
Name of folder; contact
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I have to tell you that my friend has a program call CKeditor and CKfinder to
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>Now, this site has ONLY 7 pages, it's not like it's a monster site, so
>what is the purpose of using php in every single page?
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example.com/contact
instead of
example.com/contact.php

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Hello,
I have a question in regards to using a PHP script in my
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anyone that could help I would be very grateful.
Thanks a million!!!
John

PHP is a server scripting language. HTML is something
rendered by a local
browser. The two never intersect! So, as David says, no....
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> Hello,
>
> I have a question in regards to using a PHP script in my
website. Do I
> have to
> convert the page away from XHTML? If there is anyone
that could help I
> would be
> very grateful.
>
> Thanks a million!!!
>
> John
>

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Hello everyone,
I have been given an exisiting website to update that uses
Dreamweaver templates.
I have made the changes successfully within the content.dwt
file, saved it, and then uploaded both the new content.dwt file and
the related *.htm pages that were linked to it.
After going to the website to double check the new pages I
found a *.php file that uses the same template, content.dwt, but it
never asked to update that particular file.
So, I opened the *.php file in Dreamweaver and tried to apply
changes from the content.dwt file to it using: Templates - Update
current page, but no such luck. Since there is no code at the start
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content.dwt file so see what files would come up in the "do you
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Can you post a link to the PHP page, please? This will allow
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"Mr Zedd" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:eviqn8$ntm$[email protected]..
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been given an exisiting website to update that
uses Dreamweaver
> templates.
>
> I have made the changes successfully within the
content.dwt file, saved
> it,
> and then uploaded both the new content.dwt file and the
related *.htm
> pages
> that were linked to it.
>
> After going to the website to double check the new pages
I found a *.php
> file
> that uses the same template, content.dwt, but it never
asked to update
> that
> particular file.
>
> So, I opened the *.php file in Dreamweaver and tried to
apply changes from
> the
> content.dwt file to it using: Templates - Update current
page, but no such
> luck. Since there is no code at the start of this file
like the other
> *.htm
> files how do I "connect" it with the newly updated
template. I tried
> making a
> small change on the content.dwt file so see what files
would come up in
> the "do
> you wish to update..." list but for some reason the
*.php file is not
> there.
>
> Perhaps the answer is fairly obvious to someone who has
worked with
> Templates
> a lot but since I have just started working with
templates I still have a
> large
> knowledge gap in this area.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Mr Zedd
>

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