php in design view - Dreamweaver CS3

Hi everyone,

I’m having a few problems with .php in Dreamweaver CS3.
Basically I want to edit the layout & design of a website, all the pages are .php. Why will the .php files not show up in design view?

Some of the code looks like this:

<?php

session_start();
include("include/config.php");
include("include/functions/import.php");
$thebaseurl = $config['baseurl'];

$templateselect = "aboutus.tpl";
$pagetitle = $lang[1];
STemplate::assign('pagetitle',$pagetitle);

//TEMPLATES BEGIN
STemplate::assign('error',$error);
STemplate::display('header.tpl');
STemplate::display($templateselect);
STemplate::display('footer.tpl');
//TEMPLATES END
?>

This was in the aboutus.php file.

I’m a designer and code is something I don’t know much about, I know my why around Dreamweaver and can design websites but only using .html.

I was watching a Dreamweaver tutorial and I watched someone drop a .php file into Dreamweaver and all the graphics popped up in the design view?!

This is driving me nuts! Someone please help!

Cheers

 

Dreamweaver doesn't doesn't parse PHP. If you have HTML in your PHP file they will show up in design view.

<?
   include("somefile.php");
?>
<b>SOME HTML</b>
<?
   include("anotherfile.php");
?>

PHP:

Just code it all in code view