Comments on: PHP Includes Bug in Dreamweaver CS3

By: d

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:37:30 +0000

Thanks man – exactly the answer I needed.
Broke it out into two scripts and it worked.

By: luca

luca — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:09:59 +0000

hi, i report to this forum that i have the same problem on cs4, dww doesn’t let me see the web page with includes in design mode. I’ve report this bug on adobe web site

By: Matthew Shapiro

Matthew Shapiro — Wed, 13 May 2009 03:57:05 +0000

I can happily report that DW CS4 also has this bug. But I agree with Jazz. DW is great for its code view, and if you have a mac, its very easy to create your own testing server by “turning on” apache, mysql and php (all included with Leopard). I’m sure it would be easy to do this with a PC too.

By: Greg Eyton-Jones

Greg Eyton-Jones — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:25:29 +0000

I seem to be having problems with my php in dreamweaver. I am new to php and would like to include an external sheet. My code is correct and I know that it is although when I preview it its as if there is no include at all.

By: Miki

Miki — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:56:41 +0000

Dreamweawer some time sucks try Aptana studio it’s free. I’m combine Apatana php and javascript editor with Dreamweaver visual and code html editor.

By: Roll

Roll — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:10:17 +0000

This used to work in Dreamweaver MX. It is a new “bug” if you will. All you people who suggested workarounds are very helpful, and thanks! Still, it is completely lame that CS3 works like this! It’s not like includes and CSS are arcane or high level programming. I’m very suprised the developers let this one slip through. I am hoping they issue a bug fix soon.

By: Jazz

Jazz — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:48:11 +0000

I never use dreamweaver for the design view, it takes just as much time to upload the file to my site and look at it there. I guess if you don’t have a domain you can test things on this is a problem but really I could care less if the design view doesn’t work perfectly with php. I like dreamweaver for its code view where it auto completes redundant html tags and color codes different tags/functions making it very clean and easy to read.

By: Grant Gittus

Grant Gittus — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:46:09 +0000

It may be more involved than that. I have little experience with php, and am just getting up to speed with Dreamweaver (after using GoLive for a few years).
There’s a site I am building at the moment which has a Spry menu bar in one file loaded into the other pages with a call.
If I place a DW php include ‘object’ in the page, the site breaks as it can’t find the required directory (??!). However, if I cut & paste the same code I used in GoLive, the site functions perfectly BUT DW’s page display goes completely FUBAR: all you can see is the menu text – all other content disappears.

Still trying to find out why.

By: Mike Olbinski

Mike Olbinski — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:56:05 +0000

I hand-code everything….you crazy kids with your fancy shmancy toys!

That is kind of cool though Ryan…I didn’t think there would be a web development tool that would actually include a file in development mode.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 23:30:33 +0000

That… is ridiculous. Well, at least now we know. Thanks!