Its only recently that we came across a post which has now brought me a lot of joy to our lives and made it a lot easier on the eyes. Natively dreamweaver does not recognise phtml files and so you end up living in a black and white world, which is ok except you feel like you've been living in a 1950's sid com for the last few years. However help is finally at hand and now you can finally see phtml files for what they really are and we're going to show you how to achieve the same.
First of all since we're all on PC's, the fix described is only for windows based computers. But if you do need a fix for windows you can find the fix here.
Documents and Settings > [user] > Application Data > Adobe Dreamweaver > Configuration > extensions.txt
Change the top line and add the PHTML
HTM,HTML,SHTM,SHTML, ... ,TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,PHTML,JSP,WML,TPL, ... ,MASTER:All Documents
And then change the third line down to look like
PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,TPL,PHTML:PHP Files
Program Files > Adobe > Dreamweaver [Your Version] > configuration > Extensions.txt
Change the top line and add the PHTML
HTM,HTML,SHTM,SHTML, ... ,TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,PHTML,JSP,WML,TPL, ... ,MASTER:All Documents
And then change the third line down to look like
PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,TPL,PHTML:PHP Files
Program Files > Adobe > Dreamweaver [Your Version] > configuration > DocumentTypes > MMDocumentTypes.xml
Go to line 75 and change it so it looks like below
<documenttype id="PHP_MySQL" servermodel="PHP MySQL" internaltype="Dynamic" winfileextension="php,php3,php4,php5,phtml"
macfileextension="php,php3,php4,php5,phtml" file="Default.php" writebyteordermark="false">; </documenttype>
Fin.
Now you can live in the real world and see all your code in colour.
