Dreamweaver CS5 where are the joomla linked php files

i read this entire thread and after a lot of unrealeted debate the origional question was never answered. so, after some research i found a tutorial on youtube that did answer it, and here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjkbfC58_8

at 6:27 the presenter gets the 'restricted access' page which he quickly resolves by deleting some of the url in the address field, shortening the address to http://localhost:8888/yoursitename/

Also here is the proof that Dreamweaver CS5 is neither designed to work with drupal. http://drupal.org/node/768848

I think Adobe must be a little bit more honest saying that it ONLY works for wordpress for now. But soon for Joomla , drupal and others.

well, when you only want to increase your sales, what the hell right?

The conclusion is simple. Dreamweaver CS5 is not designed to work with joomla. It only works with wordpress (that's probably why we have never seen video tutorials with joomla)

Joomla is designed to restrict access to pages directly. That's probably  why you`ll never see a .php file related.

Probably we'll have to wait to DW CS6 or 7.

If someona have a proof that I'm wrong, please post it here.

Thanks

I am having pretty much the same issue with a Joomla site in DW CS5. Basically from what I can see, the CSS files are not loading even though DW knows they are there because they are available as linked files. But when I go in "inspect" mode, the CSS pane is completely empty. The template displays fine though so DW knows the CSS files are links to the page I am in.

For the past 5 years I cobbled up together a system in DW to do exactly this but requiring a simple "view Source" a local save and a search and replace to link the CS and JS files to the "static Sandbox" I created. That method is only slightly slower than this one if DW actually behaved. Since so far it doesn't, I'll be forced to keep working with my old method but I'll have the advantage of live view and inspect, which on a static page will work just fine and they will probably save me several trips to Firebug.

But I'll keep on working on this issue and with the experience I have in DW with Joomla if it is possible I am confident that I will figure it out. Right now I am basically a hair from having it work. I believe it's just a bit off due to the peculiar (for DW) path to the CSS files. Basically, I think DW expects them in a different place according to the Joomla code. Again, I believe that's due to the fact that the real index.php file in Joomla is the template file and that one is connected to the css files. But the new features force you to work with the global index.php file which is outside of the template system.

It may be as easy as moving the CSS files temporarily outside or teach DW how to fetch the right link.

I'll be waiting for the official Adobe tutorials on the matter and see if they have figured out something by then. If not I'll update my post here and let everyone know.

Did you ever get the Joomla php files to show up?  I am using Dreamweaver cs5 and im having the same issue.

I don't have Joomla! installed, but I have tested it with both Drupal and WordPress. If you have a testing server set up, Dreamweaver should recognize Drupal, Joomla!, or WordPress instantly when you select Site > Site-Specific Code Hints.

See http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_php.html for details on setting up a testing server for PHP in CS5.