Specifications

Extending Dreamweaver MX 27

When Dreamweaver MX launches, it reads all document type definition files and builds a list of

valid document types. Dreamweaver treats any entries within the definition files that have

nonexistent server models as nonserver model document types. Dreamweaver ignores entries that

have bad contents or IDs that are not unique.

If, while scanning the Configuration/DocumentTypes folder, Dreamweaver MX finds no

document type definition files or if any of the definition files appear to be corrupt, Dreamweaver

closes with an error message.

Dynamic templates

You can create templates that are based on dynamic document types. These templates are called

dynamic templates. The following two elements are essential to defining a dynamic template:

• The value of the internaltype attribute for the new document type must be DWTemplate.

• The dynamicid attribute must be set and the value must be a reference to the identifier of an

existing dynamic document type.

If, for example, you have defined the following dynamic document type:

<documenttype

id="PHP_MySQL"

servermodel="PHP MySQL"

internaltype="Dynamic"

winfileextension="php,php3"

macfileextension="php,php3"

file="Default.php"

</documenttype>

You can then define the following dynamic template, which is based on this PHP_MySQL dynamic

document type:

<documenttype

id="DWTemplate_PHP"

internaltype="DWTemplate"

dynamicid="PHP_MySQL"

winfileextension="php.dwt"

macfileextension="php.dwt"

file="Default.php.dwt"

<title>PHP Template</title>

</documenttype>

When a Dreamweaver MX user creates a new blank template of type DWTemplate_PHP,

Dreamweaver lets the user create PHP server behaviors in the file. Furthermore, when the user

creates instances of the new template, the user can create PHP server behaviors in the instance.

In the previous example, when the user saves the template, Dreamweaver MX automatically adds

a .php.dwt extension to the file. When the user saves an instance of the template, Dreamweaver

adds the .php extension to the file.