Posted by Tony Marston on 07/16/06 09:16

"Juliette" <jrf_no_spam@jokeaday.net> wrote in message
news:44b9b6da$0$73418$dbd4f001@news.wanadoo.nl...
> frizzle wrote:
>> IchBin wrote:
>>> What are the advantages or disadvantages of .inc files over the
>>> 'include' statement. I can't seem to find that information at the PHP
>>> website.
>>>
>>> Also the same for form building inline, I guess you would call it, and
>>> HTML template objects. File types of .tpl and .ihtml?
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance...
>>> IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us
>>> __________________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> 'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
>>> -William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)
>>
>> To answer your first question:
>> if *.inc files were called directly via the browser's url, most likely
>> it's content would be displayed unparsed. So your entire code would be
>> naked on the internet, including possible passwords etc.)
>>
>> Instead if you want to use '.inc', you could use file.inc.php, which
>> would be parsed before outputted to the browser.
>>
>> Frizzle.
>>
>
>
> Or include the following in your .htaccess file:
>
> <Files ~ "\.inc$">
> Order allow,deny
> Deny from all
> </Files>

You can also put .inc files in a directory which is outside the web root, or
in a password-protected directory so that its contents cannot be accessed
through the web server.

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Tony Marston

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