[RESOLVED] Unable to open .tpl files

[rashed]

I have an open source application. The application uses smarty templates. The problem is I am unabe to open .tpl files with Dreamweaver. Is there any other editor/software available to edit smarty templates?

[NogDog]

Assuming these .tpl files are plain text files, any text editor should be able to open and edit them (such as Windows' Notepad). I'm no DreamWeaver expert, but I find it hard to believe it cannot open any text file for editing just because it has a .tpl suffix. Are you sure it's not some sort of file permission problem?

[ShawnK]

You CAN open .tpl with Dreamweaver you just have to add them to your extensions list.

Here's how to do that:
Edit->Preferences(OR CTRL+U)->File Types/Editors

Theres a text box that says Open In Code View, you should have a list like this:
.js .asa .css .cs .config .inc .txt .as .asc .asr

just add .tpl to the end of that so it looks like this:
.js .asa .css .cs .config .inc .txt .as .asc .asr .tpl

And NogDog, for some reason or another dreamweaver doesn't check for file types, it only uses the extension. So if I had an mp3 and renamed it to song1.dwt(dreamweaver template) dw would still try to open it as a template. Its really weird

[miramardesign]

Good tip shawk, I use this method to open .htaccess files, tpl's txt and virtually any ascii based file..

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[rashed]

Thank You NogDog. You have solved my problem.