Question

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I’d like to be able to create a new document in Dreamweaver that looks like this:

<?php
    class MyService extends BaseService {

    }
?>

So that I don’t have to delete out the junk that DW puts in whenever you select one of the layouts that are in the new documents list and replace it with this bare-bones starter code.

What I have tried:

1) Saving it as a template. This seems to be the old functionality where you have editable regions in an HTML page that get propogated automatically to pages created from that template…NOT what I need.

2) Following the instructions here http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS64790c24e2ee40e79cb0f410a90931900-7ffba.html and putting it in my DW/configuration/BuiltIn/Layouts folder. Unfortunately, this did not actually show up in the layouts list as suggested.

Is there an easy way to do this, or am I stuck just copying and pasting over the default HTML?

Answer 1

Dreamweaver looks for its default files in the following folder:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Dreamweaver CS5\configuration\DocumentTypes\NewDocuments

What you could do is edit the Default.php file in that folder and replace the usual HTML stuff with your preferred code above. That should work but I confess that I’ve never tried it.