PHP Code Coloring in HTML Files for Dreamweaver

Jackson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:10:07 +0000

I use the .html extension for many of my php files for varying reasons. I had given up on getting Dreamweaver to color the code properly until I stumbled upon this post:

http://groups.google.com/group/macromedia.dreamweaver/browse_thread/thread/8b0065838857c78b/49bedbef1f146e65?lnk=raot&pli=1

First, copy this file from the app config folder:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver
CS3\configuration\CodeColoring\PHP.xml

To the user config folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver
9\Configuration\CodeColoring\

Then open PHP.xml in your favorite editor. You need to add HTML to all
of the doctype lists Change every occurrence of this:

doctypes=”PHP_MySQL”

to be:

doctypes=”PHP_MySQL,HTML”

Save and close. If DW is running, close it. Now restart DW.

Worked like a charm. I’m using OSX, so just did a search for the appropriate files and found the folder structure to be about the same as above.

Voila. Thank you Randy Edmunds!

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PHP Code Coloring in HTML Files for Dreamweaver