Editing my PHP page?

Mimic · May 18 '04, 02:35 PM (#1)

I created my PHP page in Front Page and all im doing is using the SSI include feature for PHP, to make it work I need to save my page as .php. Everything works fine on the server, SSI works great. But when I try and pull the page up in FP BUT it opens as a text file in notepad. How do I get it back so I can edit the HTML that was on there? All im using is the SSI tags for PHP, is there a certain editor I cna use? I realy dont want to use notepad

Sorry im new to PHP

jlgosse · May 18 '04, 03:48 PM (#2)

Is does SSI even have anything to do with PHP? Do you mean the include function built in with PHP?

xarst · May 18 '04, 03:50 PM (#3)

Frontpage and PHP??? That can't be good, you can't mix that two things together...
SSI and PHP are different things anyway, do you mean that you are using this PHP to include things?

PHP Code:


			
include("somefile.php");

xarst · May 18 '04, 03:50 PM (#4)

Hey jl, I replied at the same time as you...

Mimic · May 18 '04, 04:41 PM (#5)

"SSI include feature for PHP"

Yeah well thats what they called it on W3 Schools

All I want to do is edit it visualy and not threw notepad

And yes I know how to do it

"Everything works fine on the server, SSI works great"

Because I have to save the file as a .php it wont let me edit it with FP any more, even though thats how I created it

xarst · May 18 '04, 04:58 PM (#6)

Rename it to "somefile.php.html" and edit it as normal. Then rename it back to "somefile.php" when done. That's the ugly way of doing it, but who cares if you are using Frontpage anyway?

Mimic · May 18 '04, 05:05 PM (#7)

Dont bash me because I use FP, it works fine for me

But hey that works, thanks for the help

teal · May 18 '04, 06:57 PM (#8)

::remicies on his Frontpage days::
Dreamweaver is a god.
Also, to use an PHP SSI stuff, you need to either have Apache running on your machine or upload the stuff, since it is server-rendered (the whole point). No WYSIWYG web design program will ever grab the includes for you, as far as I know.

xarst · May 19 '04, 01:06 AM (#9)

Quote:

Originally Posted by teal

No WYSIWYG web design program will ever grab the includes for you, as far as I know.

The God does it...

PS- Dreamweaver = The God

Mimic · May 19 '04, 01:49 PM (#10)

If DW does it then why didnt you just tell me that in the first place? I can use DW if needed

jlgosse · May 19 '04, 02:24 PM (#11)

God. I'm curious as to why you would EVER pick FP over DW: EVER.

xarst · May 19 '04, 04:22 PM (#12)

Maybe he hasn't used it before, that's the only reason I can think of...

Mimic · May 19 '04, 05:48 PM (#13)

Thanks for making me cry...

**Wired** · May 19 '04, 07:26 PM (#14)

Don't cry! People mainly don't like FP because of the vast amount of CRAP it adds to code. DW doesn't add nearly as much. Notepad rocks!

xarst · May 20 '04, 01:05 AM (#15)

Ppl hate FP because it has almost no features for CSS, it only makes IE propietery code, it's from M$, it's GUI is far from the great and intuitive DW, forget about server-side coding with FP, and don't even think of PHP or JSP!

Mimic · May 20 '04, 02:59 PM (#16)

Ok well I started using DW and it has a bunch of cool stuff, mainly the ability to edit php pages

xarst · May 20 '04, 03:10 PM (#17)

That's only the beginning...

Mimic · May 20 '04, 03:36 PM (#18)

Indeed it is...

zingbats · May 22 '04, 09:42 AM (#19)

Tools->Options then click on the "Configure Editors" Tab. Set the editor to frontpg.exe

Alex.

teal · May 22 '04, 01:36 PM (#20)

Quote:

Originally Posted by xarst

Dreamweaver = The God

WHY DOESN'T MY COPY OF DREAMWEAVER GRAB INCLUDES!

::cries, adding more tears to the room::

Seriously, that isn't cool of dreamweaver, does it make a diffrence that I used "require?"

xarst · May 24 '04, 01:18 AM (#21)

It includes the HTML in a include file into the WYSIWYG editor, you won't see that HTML code in source-code view.