The only problem I’ve run into is editing a CSS file. I think the .php extension is the culprit. It’d also be nice to do a vertical split screen for use on larger monitors.

Hold down ‘option’ when clicking split to do a vertical split and you can change the default in the preferences

I swear I looked for that option. Thanks for pointing it out.

Aelfinn - 25 April 2007 08:44 PM

The only problem I’ve run into is editing a CSS file. I think the .php extension is the culprit. It’d also be nice to do a vertical split screen for use on larger monitors.

There’s also a pref for it.

Unfortunately it seems that when you change the page in the preview, it stops auto-refreshing when you save - bummer.

Thanks for this Derek.

I’m playing with the demo and am just about converted to editing templates as files. One thing for me though, I have an installation of EE for staging in a subdirectory which points to a sub-domain. How would I write the htaccess file for this? The example given doesn’t seem to work.

ie: my templates directory is     /public_html/beta/system/template_files

    my index.php is at /public_html/beta/index.php and my site is at http://beta.somesite.com

any help appreciated.

One thing I’ve noticed with this is that the ftp engine in Coda (they say it is the same as the forthcoming new version of Transmit) seems markedly faster than Transmit 3, the current version of that app.

Tim, try the following (place this .htaccess inside your template_files directory):

Ding-dang-it.

Looks like us Windows monkeys have been pushed even farther behind the workflow curve.

These kind of tools are making me seriously consider buying a Mac and running Windows either on a separate machine or under Boot Camp or emulation.

I work almost exclusively with ExpressionEngine now and almost all the best resources discussed here are Mac-centric.

My $0.02

Philip Jones

No need for Boot Camp or emulation, you can run any number of Windows installations (or Linux, or whatever) using Parallels, which uses virtualization and not emulation.

Visiluna, you can use my TextMate EE bundle with a Windows editor called E-TextEditor. I used WinRar to unzip the bundle. It’ll spit back a metric ton of errors, but will automatically rename the items creating the errors.

Once you’ve installed the bundle, it should work like it does with TextMate. That’ll give you snippets, code highlighting and online documentation lookup while you’re working on your EE templates.

I use e-texteditor and Chris’ bundle and it works amazingly.  I had some problems because of WinRAR as Chris mentioned, but some jiggery pokery, and the help of a friend (who owed me way more than that ) got it going.

What all did “jiggery pokery” encompass? It might be useful info for anyone else trying to use the bundle on Windows.

Derek Jones - 26 April 2007 08:24 AM

Tim, try the following (place this .htaccess inside your template_files directory):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ /beta/index.php/$1 [L]

Thanks Derek, that worked nicely. One small issue is that the URL in the preview pane in Coda includes the system and template files directory (ie: http://www.somesite.com/system/template_files/weblog/index) but I can live with that.

This is working great. I think I may switch over to templates as files with this package.

One small issue is that the URL in the preview pane in Coda includes the system and template files directory (ie: http://www.somesite.com/system/template_files/weblog/index) but I can live with that.

Right, Coda builds the path based on the FTP structure, so that is unavoidable.

The code I posted earlier was specifically to get the previews to render at the right URLs, in your templates folder .htaccess file use:

With adsense, analytics, etc. on every page the last thing I need is a duplicate copy of the entire site rendering inside the system/template folder

Adding an R=301 or R=Permanent to the rule would do the same, and is a good idea, rish, so I will update my blog entry.

This sounds very interesting. I’m using MAMP to run a development install locally, and am having trouble getting this to work. I don’t get a preview, only the raw HTML/PHP code when i try to preview the template files.

I probably need to tweak the rewrite rules, but I’m not “fluent in rewrite”

Here’s my setup, can anyone guide me in getting this to work?

Coda site is set up this way:
Root URL: http:///Applications/MAMP/htdocs/thomas
(that is where the EE install lives, and where the sites index.php file is.

Local Root: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/thomas

EE is set up this way:
Template files are saved to: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/thomas/system/template_files/
and EE creates folders inside that folder for each template group, e.g. “Weblog” and so on ...

The .htaccess file is placed in: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/thomas/system/template_files/

So guys, how many errors have I made, and what do I need to correct, to get previews working with a MAMP install ... can it even be done? Oh, by the way, the MAMP server IS started, something I often forget

The HTML in your preview isn’t even rendering?  Can you take a screenshot, please?