Posted by Michael Fesser on 07/28/07 07:05

..oO(Jerry Stuckle)

>Matt S wrote:
>
>> For Apache of course. You just force the MIME type of .html files to be PHP
>> files. If you're using an executable directory so to say (+ExecCGI), you
>> could just put #!/usr/bin/env php at the top and it would be treated as a
>> PHP file regardless of file extension.
>
>And waste a hell of a lot of server resources parsing your static HTML
>files for PHP.

* using .htaccess you can enable that on a per-directory basis
* if you're using PHP for more than just a form on a single page, then
it doesn't matter, because all pages have to be parsed anyway
* the file extension .html (or no extension at all) is preferred for
stable URIs

>Thank &Diety most shared hosting environments don't allow this. What a
>bunch of crappola.

Not if done properly.

Micha

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