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And the next…beta version:

New:

• Jump to error line – for PHP validation
• Check for Updates (in the about-box)
• PHP validation also with sheets, no more of those alert-boxes

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A new beta version (maybe unstable) is available.

- Finally..file encoding can be chosen (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1 and MacRoman at the moment)
- Menu items are only available if they should be
- Lots of code cleanup
- More useful “About”-dialogue, link to the plugin homepage
- Sheets instead of ugly alert-boxes

More information here: http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/software/coda-php/

If you use Coda with Safari 4 Beta, the preview inside Coda doesn’t refresh styles from included CSS-files.

This can get very distracting, if you update some styles in a CSS file, reload the respective page in the preview and see no change at all..

Workarounds:

• You can use the “Preview in..”-function (to the right of the URL bar) and open Safari externally..
• ..or simply hold “alt” while pressing the reload button.

A new version of the PHP-Plugin for Coda can be downloaded here:

http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/software/coda-php/.

Most important: The previous version had problems when the file was not UTF8-encoded. This version handles such errors better.

At the moment there’s no way in the Coda-API to find out the encoding of the open file. I posted a feature request to the panic guys, but of course I’ve no idea when the Coda Plugin-API will be updated..

And there’s an about box in which the current version of the plugin is shown.