How do I edit english.php file?

[Muddkids]

I have accessed the english.php file in my web hosting console but I cannot edit the content of the file to change the page title?
What app is best to open a php file in?

Thanks heaps

[fairestcape]

You should use a PLAIN TEXT EDITOR, or an editor that's designed to handle PHP. I use CRIMSON EDITOR which is a relatively simple tool, but it renders PHP code in full colour, helping you to determine code elements.

Crimson Editor is freeware on the www.

Before you start editing files, you'd do well to understand the ZC principal of OVER RIDES and CUSTOM TEMPLATES, and there's not only a lot of postings about this, but also help in the FAQ and WIKI.

When you have a grasp of what the CUSTOM system is all about, I recommend you do your edits as follows:

1. Keep - on a local drive - an exact, up-to-date, "copy" of all the zc files on your server. Make sure you have your CUSTOM over-ride identically set up on BOTH copies.

2. Do edits ONLY on the files in your LOCAL DRIVE.

3. When the edit is done, make a backup of the corresponding file on the server (by re-naming it from *****.php to *****.bak).

4. Then FTP your edited file to that file's location.