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Terry24593500wm0s
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May 25, 2022
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Why is Dreamweaver not showing my live design when coding in PHP?

  • May 25, 2022
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I have spent over 20+ hours trying to get Dreamweaver and PHP to work and am getting pretty frustrated.  YouTube videos do not address my issues.

 

I have set up a local server with wamp, and also have set up a site/server selection for my remotely hosted website on a share hosting service.

 

Last year, everything seemed to work okay, but I took a break from coding.  Now that I have returned, I just can't get anything to work in Dreamweaver.

 

Regardless of whether I am connected via my local server, or through my remote webserver, no php code is executing and all I see in the live code window is a little PHP graphic image, where-ever PHP code should be.

 

Any ideas what the issue is?

 

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    osgood_
    Legend
    May 25, 2022

    If you're coding in php then google for php storm editor by jetbrains. Dreamweaver is dead (no more new features or bug fixes) so now is the time to consider an alternative editor.

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      Terry24593500wm0sAuthor
      Participant
      May 25, 2022

      Note: I do have this remote server added as a testing server, and have used Advance to specify server model as PHP MySQL

       

      BenPleysier
      Community Expert
      BenPleysierCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 25, 2022

      Set the Testing server back to your local machine.

       

      Then check to see if the local server is running.

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      Terry24593500wm0sAuthor
      Participant
      May 25, 2022

      I have the local site set as testing server, and the wamp server is up and running, however now I am seeing a warning message in the live view indicating "Live View cannot display non-html files like pdf, doc, or ppt."

       

      The file I am trying to open up is just index.php with only a a php echo statement.  

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