[matthieucornillon]

Hi. I am working on a PC, and I use the designer tools to handle work on HTML pages. But I also want to use those tools to do design work on ColdFusion (CFM, CFML) pages. Not only does it not default to the designer window, but it won’t let me open the page in the designer window. Is it not possible to use the designer for files of type other than HTML?

[Riyad Kalla]

The designer is intended for use with HTML and JSP pages the reason for this is that the parser used understands tags and taglibs so it won’t mangle the page as you are working on it. There is currently no direct support for ColdFusion, but if you wanted to force the designer to open those pages, you can go to Window > Preferences > General > Content Types and add an association to the editor for cold fusion files.

[Arno.Illmann]

Hi – assuming this the reason why visual designer does not work with php files (which I succesfully could associate) – is there a possibility to customize the parsers configuration by adding tags/code to be recognized?

I checked PDT 0.7 and Eclipse 3.2.2 and MyEclipse 5.1.1 fresh install on Windows XP but if I use the Design Tab on a php file the editor window is blank. -clean param does not solve this.

I too tested to drop an anchor element from palette on this blank editor view: there are shown two external sites “text.com” and something with “news about sms” but I think this a side effect.

Arno

[Arno.Illmann]

@Arno.Illmann wrote:

… is there a possibility to customize the parsers configuration by adding tags/code to be recognized?

Maybe there is a possibility with the files in “…myeclipse-5.1.1\eclipse\plugins\com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner3_5.1.1\wd3\ext\*”? But this is not transparent to me. Do you plan to implement this? Or to write a litlle documentation?

Thanks, Arno

[Riyad Kalla]

Arno,
We may look at adding PHP support at some point down the road, but right now if you need PHP support, using the PDT source editor is going to be the best way to work.

[Arno.Illmann]

Riyad,

I do not really need php support just now, was just an evaluation. But maybe it is simply possible to add some php things in “…myeclipse-5.1.1\eclipse\plugins\com.genuitec.eclipse.webdesigner3_5.1.1\wd3\ext\*” (if this is the right place) and you have a brief descripition of what to do.

If these docs are Genuitec internal, why not publish under reserve and let some users temporarily customize the parser for their languages (php, python …). O.k. – things are probably more complex (->parser)?

Arno

[Scott Anderson]

Arno,

Thanks for the comments. We’re definately looking at support for other scripting languages and PHP and ASP support, as a first step, should show up in MyEclipse 5.5 very soon.

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