Opening php with Frontpage, Forcing html to be parsed as php?

[Elhcay]

Is there anyway to open .php files in Frontpage? Everytime I tried opening any non html files, they got opened in notepad instead, even with I selected the files from Frontpage itself or opened with ... Frontpage from file explorer? Most part of my files are html coded. (Or anyone knows of any php editors with WYSIWYG feature?)

I'm in the midst of moving my site to a php supported server, but most of my current files end with .html or .htm. Is there any way to force the server to parse html files as php so that I may make use of php commands (so that I don't have to rename all my files, and most importantly, I can;t open with files in Frontpage)? I've tried forcetype, removetype, addtype
application/x-httpd-php but I got internal server error when running the .htm files with php commands after that. Php commands were ignored when the server was not forced to treat html as phps.

[mwood_2k2]

A tip;

Download Dreamweaver, it's not free but it's great! Not just for php. But I think theres some editors with colour syntaxing, that you can use as a php editor.

[ShawnD]

the best editor i've seen is Evrsoft's 1st Page 2000

it's free and it color codes all your stuff like the php tags on this forum does ehehehe 🙂

[jdr0606]

I don't know if this helps, but in FrontPage if you select Tools and options there is a tab for "configure editors". You can tell FrontPage what editor to use for each file extension needed.

[Elhcay]

Thanks, I'll stick to Frontpage for now, since I can now get it to open php files after changing its editor configuration.