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marnix-garner
marnix-garner
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August 6, 2019
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Images not displaying in Design View

  • August 6, 2019
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How do I get images to display in the design view?

The images has a PHP code to them with <?php echo $DIR?> at the beginning.

The images appear in the live preview which obviously then runs the PHP server script.

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Paul-M
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August 6, 2019

You can't in design view because of the server side/PHP code.

Either preview in browser or use live view

Paul-M - Community Expert
    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 6, 2019

    Old fashioned Preview in Browser requires a local testing server such as Wamp, Xampp or Mamp  to parse PHP code.

    Setting up a PHP development environment for Dreamweaver | Adobe Developer Connection

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
      marnix-garner
      marnix-garnerAuthor
      Participant
      August 14, 2019

      I already have since setup MAMP properly but it won't preview in the 'Design' mode, only 'Live' mode but this is no good as one can't select .i.e a picture or element for it then to select the code in the 'Code' window (using split screen).

      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      August 6, 2019

      Switch to Live View.  

      Design view is mainly for plain vanilla, static HTML rendering.  It cannot parse PHP code or handle advanced CSS.   Design is useful for quick editing of text, DW templates and image maps.  But beyond that, it has little value.

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
        Jon Fritz
        Community Expert
        Jon FritzCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        August 6, 2019

        As far as I know, there isn't a way to get Design View to run scripts of any kind.

        It's always been that way, a bare bones, framework view that really has nothing to do with your design, but that doesn't fit on the tab, so they call it Design View.

          marnix-garner
          marnix-garnerAuthor
          Participant
          August 14, 2019

          How does one work blind like this!!? When looking at the code to make amends, it's such a slow process to find what you are looking for quickly without any 'live' preview. One would select i.e. a picture in Dreamweaver 'design' view and then it would select the code in the 'Code' window for normal HTML sites. Wondering how people work efficiently with PHP sites? (Do people use different software?)

          To work like this adds many, many hours to the job! Any suggestions on a better process would be greatly appreciated.

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