Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/08/07 20:40

J.O. Aho wrote:
> Michael Fesser wrote:
>
>> Nope, I know at least three different ways (MultiViews and mod_rewrite
>> are the other two). All have their benefits and drawbacks. I just don't
>> accept "parsing all .html for PHP wastes resources" as a general rule
>> without knowing more details. Especially if all pages contain PHP as in
>> this case - then the "waste" would be exactly the same with .php URLs.
>
> If you can ensure that there never will be plain HTML pages, then the load
> will be the same, but as you can't and the OP wrote, not all of the pages
> contains PHP, so there will be waist of CPU capacity parsing all HTML as PHP.
>

He just doesn't understand everything PHP must do to initialize the
page. He thinks it's the same amount of overhead as parsing for SSI's.

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