====== Adding syntax custom extensions to vim ======

I'm currently working with [[http://cakephp.org/|cakePHP]] (a great framework for implementing web-base PHP/Database/Ajax solutions). For that, wanted to enable php syntax highlighting to *.ctp files (View Files). 

This is easy, just add the following line to you ~/.vimrc file:
  
  au BufNewFile,BufRead *.ctp set filetype=php

How and why this works, you find in the vim help:

| :help au 	   |:au[tocmd] [group] {event} {pat} [nested] {cmd}\\ Add {cmd} to the list of commands that Vim will execute automatically on {event} for a file matching {pat}.|
| :help BufNewFile |When starting to edit a file that doesn't exist.|
| :help BufRead    |When starting to edit a new buffer, after reading the file into the buffer.|
|:help filetype    |will actually tell this whole story in part B. |

Source: http://beerpla.net/2008/04/02/how-to-add-a-vim-file-extension-to-syntax-highlighting/

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