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stuck!

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:30 am
by rrd
hi guys.. newbie to php so please excuse me if this sounds silly.

i currently use dreamweaver to do alot of my website design. i sometimes purchase templates and edit them on dreamweaver (WYSIWYG) style.

now for the million dollar question - i have downloaded a test oscommerce template. i can update the catalouge and all however i want to make changes to the template. if i open it in dreamweaver it just brings up a blank screen with little php icons. What can i do so i can make all my changes offline and uploead it back to my catalouge in .php once completed.

i have changed the file extnsions to .html and NO it doesnt function properly. It doesnt seem to pull the data when i do that.

Any ideas on a php editor with a (wysiwyg) feature.

much appreciated.

Re: stuck!

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:36 am
by psaha
Well! question was not clear for me!
I think you have to install Apache and Php; then try in localhost.

Re: stuck!

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 9:07 am
by Eran
PHP is a programming language. You can't edit it in a WYSIWYG. You will need to learn some basic PHP to edit those templates, and switch to the code view in Dreamweaver..

Re: stuck!

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:48 am
by papa
And changing your file extensions means it will probably not be parsed. Unless you edit Apache's httpd.conf.