CakePHP and Dreamweaver 8

Oscar Sodani is a founder of Help2Go and owner of Help2Go Networks, an IT consulting firm in the Washington D.C. area. Oscar holds the CISSP certification as well as industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Novell.

CakePHP is a marvelous PHP framework, but if you use Dreamweaver 8 as your editor, you'll need to make a few configuration changes.

The main thing you'll notice is that .thtml files (CakePHP views) are not supported by Dreamweaver 8. Here's how to make Dreamweaver recognize that file type:

Step 1: Extensions.txt

The first step is to go to the C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration directory and edit Extensions.txt

On the first line, right before :All Documents, type in ,THTML so that the end of the line looks like this:

...,VTML,INC,JAVA,EDML,WML,THTML:All Documents

Next, find the line with :PHP Files and edit it similarly so that it looks like this:

PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,TPL,THTML:PHP Files

Another copy of Extensions.txt can be found in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration - we suggest that you make both these changes in that file as well, just for good measure.

Step 2: MMDocumentTypes.xml

Next, go to the C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Dreamweaver 8\Configuration\DocumentTypes directory. Edit the file MMDocumentTypes.xml

Add the thtml extension to the PHP_MYSQL documenttype declaration line so that it looks like the following:

Save the file and restart Dreamweaver - now you can create Cake PHP views within Dreamweaver!
 

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