Device Preview in PHP using includes?

[stage32]

I'm loving the Device Preview option, but I'm a bit stuck trying to figure out if it's possible to set it up using includes.

For instance, let's say that I load everything from index.php, which has "include($_GET['page'].'.php')" - so while I'm working on the index file, I can see the homepage just fine, but let's say in case of "index.php?page=contact" - I would need to edit the contact.php file, however, when I open that file, it wouldn't load through the index, it "thinks" it's own page... which makes sense, but is there any way to set it up so that I can open contact.php in Dreamweaver and see "index.php?page=contact" in the device preview?

[Nancy OShea]

Do you have a local testing server?

[ToloUSN]

Yes, I do. That's what I mean. index.php will load fine, and when I go to contact.php, it also shows me contexts of that php file, but I'm hoping to figure out a way to load index.php?page=cotact when I'm editing contact.php.

[BenPleysier · Accepted solution]

You can't because Real-time Preview runs inside a shell. The only way to see your page is by right-clicking on the page -> This Frame -> Open Frame in New .. as in the following and then entering the URL parameters.

[ToloUSN]

Yes, I can inspect it and see the frame. I was curious if anyone created some sort of workaround for similar situation either using actual php code or .htaccess routing.

The best I came up with thus far is setting a flag in index.php and then redirecting when to index when flag isn't detected, but it seems very hacky.

[BenPleysier]

Have you tried Brackets? It would be interesting to know if it works in Brackets.

[ToloUSN]

No, I haven't used Brackets before. I mean, the default preview seems to be doing it's job, so I'd assume brackets would work exactly the same.