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Doug Fir
Doug Fir

Reputation: 21282

Finding the right PHP file to edit

This post follows research and another recent SO post. That question was along the lines of "Is there a way on any PHP site to identify the file that contains the html that you are viewing on a webpage?" Using, for example "inspect element" feature.

It appears not. Fine. Is there a conventional way around this? From research it seems it's a security issue so with PHP you cannot.

I can login to the host using Filezilla. I want to edit my main Navigation menu. I'd therefore like to search for something like Nav, Navigation, Main menu etc but there does not appear to be a search feature along those lines.

What do developers typically do here (I am very new to PHP). How does one typically identify a file to make edits when they are working on a site that they did not create?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 939

Answers (1)

Alfo
Alfo

Reputation: 4819

This might help: go into the source and find beginning of the specific piece of HTML generated for your navigation. It might be (I'm not including the closing tag because that might be generated dynamically):

<nav id="main"

or

<ul class="navigation"

Get something like Sublime Text and drag the project folder into it. Then do Find -> Find in Files (Ctrl-Shift-F) and search for that snippet of HTML.

Hopefully you should find what you're looking for.

Upvotes: 1

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