[thelist] PHP file association

Ken Moore psm2713 at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 1 13:01:36 CDT 2006


Hi all,

Another possibility is the Windows file association function. Open up 
Windows Explorer. Click on Tools > File Types. Scroll down to PHP files. If 
the association is DW8, change it.

Ken

>Hi John:
>
>I am not sitting in front of DW8 at the moment but try looking in the
>Help menu for file associations. I remember that when DW is installed,
>it asks you which filetypes you want DW associated with: if this dialog
>can be prompted to appear again, you might be able to correct the issue
>you have discovered.
>
>Jules
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>I've had PHP installed on my machine for a while, and PHP pages within
>Web site have always opened properly within my browser... until I
>installed Dreamweaver 8.  Even though I unselected all file associations
>during installation, something got screwed up: when I visit a PHP page,
>both Firefox and IE prompt me to either download the file or open it in
>PHPEdit (which I've also had installed for some time without this
>issue).  So I assume Dreamweaver selected PHP as an association during
>installation by default, then triggered the existing association with
>PHPEdit somehow to override opening PHP files in my browsers.  I checked
>my Firefox associations, but PHP is not listed (and you can only view
>and edit, and not create, associations in Firefox options).
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