Operation Manual

USING DREAMWEAVER

Creating and Managing Files

Last updated 3/28/2012

Before you test pages, you’ll need to perform the following steps:

• Set up a Dreamweaver site and make sure that you have filled out the Web URL text box the Site Setup dialog box.

• Set up a PHP application server.

Important: The server must be running before you attempt to work with Dynamically-Related Files in Dreamweaver.

• Install WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla! on the application server. For more information, see:

• WordPress Installation

• Drupal Installation

• Joomla Installation

• In Dreamweaver, define a local folder where you’ll download and edit your CMS files.

• Define the location of the installed WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla! files as your remote and testing folder.

• Download (Get) your CMS files from the remote folder.

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Set Dynamically-Related Files preferences

When you open a page that is associated with Dynamically-Related Files, Dreamweaver can discover the files

automatically, or let you discover the files manually (which you do by clicking a link in the Info bar above the page).

The default setting is manual discovery.

1 Choose Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Dreamweaver > Preferences (Macintosh OS).

2 In the General category, make sure the Enable Related Files option is selected.

3 Select Manually or Automatically from the Dynamically-Related Files pop-up menu. You can also disable the

discovery entirely by selecting Disabled.

Discover Dynamically-Related Files

1 Open a page that has Dynamically-Related Files associated with it—for example, the site root index.php page of a

WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla! site.

2 If the discovery of Dynamically-Related Files is set to manual (the default), click the Discover link in the Info bar

that appears above the page in the Document window.

If the discovery of Dynamically-Related Files is automatically enabled, then a list of Dynamically-Related Files

appears in the Related Files toolbar.

The order of Related and Dynamically-Related Files in the Related Files toolbar is as follows:

• Static related files (i.e. related files that do not require any sort of dynamic processing)

• External related files (i.e. .css and .js files) that are attached to dynamic path server include files

• Dynamic path server include files (i.e. .php, .inc, and .module files)

Filter Related Files

Because Related Files and Dynamically-Related Files can often be numerous, Dreamweaver lets you filter Related Files

so that you can precisely locate the files you want to work with.

1 Open a page that has Related Files associated with it.