Use with existing PHP site

[scooper12]

I have used Snippetmaster on HTML web pages. Will there be any issues with snippets around text content on PHP pages? I'm wondering if the page preview will work?

Thanks,
Sharon

[admin]

Hello,

If you want to edit a .php page, that is fine.. as long as the actual code you are editing in the editor does not contain any PHP code.  (The editor in Snippetmaster will probably break your PHP code since it is an HTML editor and not a PHP editor.)

[scooper12]

I understand that , the snippet would be around text, not PHP code. However, I wondered if the page preview would work. Will the PHP code be able to run as it does when the page is viewed from a browser?

[admin]

Hello,

No, the PHP code on the .php page would not work correctly, because it would not be executed by the server. 

When Snippetmaster previews a page, basically it just collected the existing page code, replaces whatever part was changed in the editor, and then shows the results in the browser.

PHP code needs to "execute" on the server in order to work, so that part of the page would not work.