Configuring Dreamweaver to work with Drupal

File extension handling

Add Drupal file types to the Extensions.txt file so Dreamweaver knows how to handle them:

Documents and Settings -> [user] -> Application Data -> Adobe Dreamweaver -> Configuration

Edit: Extensions.txt To the first line add MODULE, PROFILE, INFO:

HTM,HTML,SHTM,SHTML, ... ,TXT,PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,MODULE,PROFILE,INFO,JSP,WML,TPL, ... ,MASTER: All Documents

To the PHP Files line add MODULE,PROFILE,INC like so:

PHP,PHP3,PHP4,PHP5,TPL,MODULE,PROFILE,INC: PHP Files

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Add the Drupal file types to MMDocumentTypes.xml do Dreamweaver knows how to format them:

Program Files -> Adobe -> Adobe Dreamweaver -> configuration -> DocumentTypes

Edit: MMDocumentTypes.xml

Find the line with the declaration for PHP_MySQL and add module,profile,inc:

id="PHP_MySQL" ... winfileextension="php,php3,php4,php5,module,inc,profile"

...and formatting

Change the code formatting preferences to use Drupal coding standards, ie. 2 spaces for indenting.

Edit -> Preferences, and select Code Format.

Set the indent option and for 2 spaces.

Set the Tab size to 2.