Dreamweaver8 and .inc files

Whitestar · 5 May 2006 at 15:29

In my site i use a lot of .inc files which saves boat loads of time, but when i go to design view it doesnt show them.

How do you get dreamweaver to show .inc files in design view?

Augmented · 5 May 2006 at 15:38

I presume the .inc files are somehow dynamically included in a page on the server-side (SSI? PHP?). If so, then I don't believe it's possible unless you can get Dreamweaver to act as a webserver.

No loss though, the code output of the design-view in Dreamweaver is terrible - use the code-view instead

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weescott · 5 May 2006 at 16:43

I use .inc files for a couple of sites. If I need to view them in Dreamweaver I change them to .htm and then back to .inc when I am finished with them.

Whitestar · 5 May 2006 at 16:52

Augmented said:
No loss though, the code output of the design-view in Dreamweaver is terrible - use the code-view instead .

Yeah, I do use code view, but sometimes i'd like to see what the changes i make will look like before i upload the page.

Ahh well never mind, will have to bug Adobe to put some sort of webserver feature in a new version.

Cheers guys

Augmented · 5 May 2006 at 17:15

Whitestar said:
Yeah, I do use code view, but sometimes i'd like to see what the changes i make will look like before i upload the page.

Get Apache, or your webserver of choice, running locally on your machine - that's the most common way to develop. Then all you need to do is make a change in DW, alt-tab over to your browser and refresh

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If you don't feel up to installing Apache and the rest manually, then look at a one-click package like XAMPP.