Windows 10: how do I open .php and .html files with PHP editor Eclipse?

when i go to the control panel's option "associate a file type with a default program", my IDE named Eclipse, which is a PHP editor is not in the list of programs to choose from. how can I set .php, .php3, .html and .htm files to open automatically with this program? is this even possible in windows 10 anymore? an image of what I see is below:




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Opening PHP files with windows 10

PHP files are nothing but text so that they can be opened any application which can open text files.

Hence, you can open php files with Windows 10 supplied Notepad or Wordpad. Third party editors such as Notepad++ are generally used to code with these kind of files.

You can start Notepad or Wordpad > File > Open > Select the php file and open.

 

File Type php Missing in Windows File Association Settings

I would like to associate the php file format with a text editor utility such as Sublime Text. When I attempt to "always open file type with Sublime Text" via the context menu in Windows Explorer, it does not work. When I open Settings > Default Apps > Choose Default Apps by file type, the php file format appears to be missing from the list - see screenshot. I expected it to be listed below the .php3 file type.

On a related note, I was also unable to associate the css and html file types with Sublime Text (or any other software) via Windows Explorer. I was able to work around this by using the FileTypesMan utility. However, the FileTypesMan utility is not able to associate php files either. Please advise. TIA.

 

windows10 xdebug, godaddy, html submit form, php heredoc

Don't know if these are windows10 problems but all was okay until one of w10 updates (I think) added xdebug. Since then, godaddy has trouble providing a listing of my html and php code files. My html form submit button no longer sends me to the php server
script. There seems to be other problems but I will wait until the rest is resolved , they may goaway .