How do I view a PHP file using FTP Surfer?

Question

I am not experienced with web development, but I'm trying to learn. I've downloaded FTP Surfer so I can upload files to my website. I've figured out how to login to my FTP server and I can see all the files, but I am unable to open the PHP files. I've read that I can open them with notepad, but how do I do that? Am I missing something? All I want to do is change some text on my website. Also, how would I swap out pictures on my website? Thank you.

Answer 1

The way I used to view PHP files is by right-clicking on the file while it was on my computer, not in an FTP program, and click Open With... and I would open with Notepad. After I uploaded them, I would be able to open them in the FTP program.

Answer 2

I've never used FTP Surfer, but most FTP programs allow you to specify which program to open certain file types. For example, if you want to open files with .php extensions with Notpad - you would choose a program to open those file types with..

Like i said though, I have never used FTP surfer, but I got this from their FAQs on their website:

Q: How can I edit files on an FTP site ?

A: FTP Surfer can use either the standard Windows Explorer file associations or custom associations to determine which application should be launched on the PC to edit a particular file. To edit a file, simply double-click the file in the list view or select the appropriate command from the File menu.

The file is then downloaded to the PC as binary (unless a filename pattern match is listed in the ASCII Files list in the Options dialog box) and the target application is started with the file a command line parameter.

FTP Surfer will then monitor the downloaded file. If any changes are detected, FTP Surfer will then prompt to upload the new file to replace the existing file on the server.

To answer your second question, you can swap out pictures on your website by uploading new images and referencing those images in your html / php documents instead of the current one(s). Images are referenced using the <img> tag in HTML.