Swannie Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 hey all you clever people... What is the best program to edit the template files with? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Well lets see... I use Dreamweaver, Crimson Editor, RF TextED, NotePad.... Editor's are like good girl friends. Once you find one you like it's hard to switch to another. The RF TextED is nice and free. Also fast. I use it a lot for other scripts as well. Crimson Editor is another freebie but old. It's pluses are very fast, handles huge files, syntax color coding. Dreamweaver is expensive, slow but does a lot of stuff the others don't. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Editor's are like good girl friends. Once you find one you like it's hard to switch to another. I wouldn't say that! I've always stuck with Dreamweaver but other things have changed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpookedOut Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 InType (supports a variety) or Metapad (very basic, does the job) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACscr Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I use the editor built into CuteFTP Pro. Definitely saves a lot of time and easy to search/replace on multiples. I never recommend using a WYSIWYG for templates. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe123 Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I use Edit Plus almost for everything http://www.editplus.com/ and notepad ++ is not bad as well http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skshost Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I use notepad++ and filezilla, works well for me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STECHUSA Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 I also use notepad++ for all my development. Very nice editor that is light on the resources, and is very useful. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Be careful using programs like Dreamweaver, especially when editing the header.tpl etc. Dreamweaver likes to "complete" a table/div by adding a closing </div> or </table> tag (depends how you have coded your template files). This messes up your site layout as that closing tag should actually be in the footer.tpl (as an example). My solution is to simply put what Dreamweaver needs so it is happy, but never actually use it...i.e at the end of the header.tpl I add... {if $dreamweaver=='glitch'} </table>{/if} Which of course is always false, so never loads on your actual web pages. You will know which files Dreamweaver adds these closing tags to by simply opening a .tpl file and you will see that the file has changed, even though you haven't made an changes yourself. Cheers, Paul 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swannie Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 Tanks guys. I have one more question and I'm not sure if this is the right forum. I got an email this morning with subject "Cron <intouchw@za1> 0 9 * * * php -q /home/intouchw/public_html/billing/whmcs/admin/cron.php" and body "/bin/sh: 0: command not found". Does this mean there is an error with the cron job, or just nothing to process at this time? Thanks Swannie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Tanks guys.I have one more question and I'm not sure if this is the right forum. I got an email this morning with subject "Cron <intouchw@za1> 0 9 * * * php -q /home/intouchw/public_html/billing/whmcs/admin/cron.php" and body "/bin/sh: 0: command not found". Does this mean there is an error with the cron job, or just nothing to process at this time? Hi, Check the path to "php". For example for my server I have to have something like this: /<root path to php4>/bin/php-cli -q /<path to script>/cron.php Cheers, Paul 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderman Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 thanks iceman, i was using dreamweaver and my page alignment was going haywire... and was totally unusable.. i am using portal template with the homepage content appearing below the footer... it was a mess.. i used notepad and changed header.tpl & footer.tpl files.. and now it works perfectly... thanks i had to search the whole forum for this.. check it out www.LivelySite.com 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ask21900 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 hey all you clever people... What is the best program to edit the template files with? I would definately have to say that the best, not only for tpl, but all web pages (html, php, etc.) is notepad... Simple and straight-forward... No program to mess up your custom code. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAJI26 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 I use notepad pro. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ask21900 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 I use notepad pro. I'm gonna have to checkout notepad pro... never thought i needed more than notepad has to offer... it sounds like with the widespread use of pro, i might have to give it a try 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 I would definately have to say that the best, not only for tpl, but all web pages (html, php, etc.) is notepad... Simple and straight-forward... No program to mess up your custom code. Except Notepad itself, which I've seen first hand introduce odd line break chars that broke PERL/PHP scripts. There are better text editors. For raw coding, I use UltraEdit, Note Tab Pro and a few others. On the server, I prefer Nano. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 SSHing in and using nano ftw. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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