Coldfusion function hints in .html page

Report · Sep 22, 2010

I'm building a coldfusion site that will be using .html as the file extension instead of .cfm. I can easily set the server to parse the page correctly, however I am having a problem getting the code hinting to work in Dreamweaver.

I did figure out how to set Dreamweaver for CFM tag completion in an HTML page and it works fine, for instance if I type:

<cfa

it will hint and complete <cfabort>

However, the problem I'm having is that I can't get the function hinting to work. Normally, if I edit a CFM page and press control-space I get a list of coldfusion functions, for instance if I hold control-space then type:

arr

I'll get a menu of options and can auto-complete as:

ArrayAppend()

This is very helpful but I can't get this type of function hinting to work when I'm editing a HTML page in dreamweaver. Currently it will only do the tag completion, but NOT the function completion.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!!

Report · Sep 23, 2010

Jeremy,

I'm building a coldfusion site that will be using .html as the file extension instead of .cfm. I can easily set the server to parse the page correctly, however I am having a problem getting the code hinting to work in Dreamweaver.

You'll need to manually edit this file in your User (not Application) Configuration folder:

Configuration/CodeHints/CodeHints.xml

Search all of the "doctypes" attributes. Wherever you see "ColdFusion", add "HTML". It's a comma-separated list, so this:

doctypes="ColdFusion,CFC"

Should be changed to:

doctypes="ColdFusion,CFC,HTML"

Note that you can do something similar in the CodeColoring folder to get syntax coloring to work.

Regards,

Randy