Dreamweaver's .php code colouring applied to .module files... there is a useful nugget!

Posted by Fixdit on February 7, 2008 at 7:58pm

I have been frustrated when editing .module and other non .php suffixed files that Dreamweaver doesn't colour code?! So here is how to make Dreamweaver do so.

In Dreamweaver's application directroy follow to here: Configuration\DocumentTypes\MMDocumentTypes.xml
In here (MMDocumentTypes.xml file) you should find the lines of code which list the currently accepted suffix formats for php colours to be applied to.
Something like this: winfileextension="php,php3,php4" or "macfileextension="php,php3,php4"
Insert "module" onto the end of these like so: winfileextension="php,php3,php4,module" or macfileextension="php,php3,php4,module"
Restart Dreamweaver and it should nicely colour code .module files as php ones.

Note:

this works for Dreamweaver MX and CS3.

Comments

Fabulous!

Posted by drupalqueen on May 27, 2008 at 3:28pm

Thank you!

How about searching in code?

Posted by josvl on April 13, 2009 at 3:43pm

Thanks, this works well, also in CS4.
However, Dreamweaver doesn't seem to include files with these extensions when searching text in the code of the current site.
So if you search for, say, a function in any of the .module files of your site, Dreamweaver will not find it. It will look in .php and .inc files but skip the others.
Any ideas on this?