I have DreamWeaver CS 6. Can anyone tell me how I can open a website on it. I own a forum which uses PHP and CSS. I want to edit it using Dreamweaver. Please suggest a way out.
Go to Manage Sites under the Site sub-menu in the top navigation. There you can setup your website with it's FTP or SFTP details.
Well, I see nobody noticed the problem here... (well, apart from the fat bloated overpriced steaming pile of **** known as Dreamweaver) Do we SEE the problem here? FORUM.. WHAT forum software? Dreamweaver, at least so far as simply loading a file and trying to edit it, probably isn't going to get the job done in the way you think, ESPECIALLY if you're thinking about using the stupid malfing WYSIWYG or even just using that as a preview pane. Every forum software handles it differently -- some use off the shelf templating systems like SMARTY, some use their own internal templating system, others use PHP functions for each sub-bit of markup. You're going to need to know which of those the forums is using and how to split markup into each of those sub-pieces after you work from the HTML output. Nothing we tell you is going to help a lot without knowing what forum software, and it is VERY unlikely you'll be able to just open a single file in dreamweaver and start editing, and actually have the result do anything in the forum without a LOT of manual labor.
deathshadow is assuming you don't know PHP since you don't know how to open the "page" in Dreamweaver. I think he's probably correct. He's saying if you download whatever PHP file you think you're going to open to try and edit the index, you'll likely find that it doesn't make sense once you open it. More than likely the changes you'll want to make can be made from inside MyBB. This is the preferred way to do it if you do not know PHP. If you do know PHP and you want to go ahead and edit the file with dreamweaver anyway, you WILL have to download the file or files through FTP (or SFTP), which is built into Dreamweaver. Look in help in Dreamweaver for specifics on how to download the files. You'll need your server's FTP login details which can be found from your host. There is no shortcut for this. If the page were a basic HTML page, you could do a "View Source" and see the HTML for just about everything on the page. If you did this with this page, it would show you the returned HTML, but when you open the PHP file, it will likely not look very similar. There is no way to do a "View Source" on the actual PHP file. You'll need to download it. Respond with any questions and I'll help you.
For PHP it's best to setup XAMPP. While you can view PHP code in Dreamweaver that's all you can do...you'd have to upload the edited PHP file to view it live to see your results...painstaking at best. Setting up a desktop server to work with makes it a lot easier.
Go to Manage Sites under the Site sub-menu in the top navigation. There you can setup your website with it's FTP or SFTP details.