Apply Source Formatting not working

[BROnstott]

When I try to apply source formatting, nothing gets formatted. 

Is there any way for me to debug this - to figure you what in my code is causing it to fail?

[Nancy OShea]

What kind of file is it? 

If it's HTML, use the built-in validation service.  Go to Window > Results > Validation.  Click on the white triangle to check your document.   Fix all reported errors.

[BROnstott]

Nancy - It's a PHP file.  There are no errors or warnings reported by validation.  This is not caused by invalid HTML or PHP code. 

[Nancy OShea]

Which version of DW?

Did you format PHP tag libraries before running Apply Source Formatting? 

[BROnstott]

It's the latest version. 

i have never looked the code tag libraries. 

I can't imagine that in building the tool there was no debug facility 

[BROnstott]

I should mention that it works on a stripped down version of the page with only a few lines on HTML, PHP, and Template commands. 

[Paul-M]

Hi,

We need to see the full page/source code really to help with this....  Can you post it?

[osgood_]

As far as I know DW doesnt specifically have a debugger for php, you'd have to use something like Xdebug. I dont know if DW has any options for executing Xdebug.

On the other hand I doubt debugging has anything to do with applying code source formatting or stopping it from working.

[B i r n o u]

Is your PHP a pure PHP file or does it contain HTML code?
if it's only PHP, it's been working pretty well (out of the box) for a few versions. then it's a matter of personal wishes and expectations that can easily be edited to refine the result.https://helpx.adobe.com/in/dreamweaver/user-guide.html/in/dreamweaver/using/format-code.ug.html

but as soon as PHP and HTML code is mixed, and depending on your method of block organization, it becomes more peculiar and often messy than we would expect. on this subject, if someone has a solution, I'll take it... thank you 😉

[BROnstott]

Folks - I have clearly failed to make myself clear.  This is only about the "Apply Source Formatting" tool.  I like to use it to line up all the indents, lists, etc.  

• I have some sites where it works fine, but on one particular site it refuses to format anything, so clearly something about this site causes the tool to stop before it does anything.  
• The code passes validation with no errors or warnings, so it is not related to that.  
• I would think there would be some way of finding out what about this site is causing the tool to fail - some debug reporting that can be turned on? 
• I am not asking anyone to read my code and figure that out; that would be too presumptious.  index.php is almost 600 lines, so it would be a tedious task. 

I'm using DW 21 (with a template), PHP, CSS3, Windows 10, with local and remote servers defined.

One interesting fact is that "Apply Source Formatting" works fine on the template. 

[Nancy OShea]

So you're trying to Apply  Code Formatting to a Template CHILD page.  That's a horse of a different color.  Only code inside an Editable Region will be effected.  Everything outside Editable Regions is necessarily controlled by your main Template.dwt. 

For best results, Apply Code Formatting to the Template.dwt and populate changes to child pages.

[BROnstott]

Nancy - I only expect it to work on code within editable regions.  But it doesn't.

There is a significant amount of code within the editable regions that I need it to work on.

[BROnstott]

Oh, and the template syntax is correct, according to DW.

[Nancy OShea]

Since this only happens with one site, the site template could be corrupted.