Posted by GamblerZG on 10/11/05 22:28

Kilbride, James wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something but doesn't Apache hand off to PHP before
> it looks at anything inside the file? Doesn't it hand it off at the fact
> that the target is SomeFile.php. So the tag <?php4/5/6/X doesn't mean
> anything since by the time the tag gets read it's already in PHP4 or 5
> or 6. So the tags can't be used. On the other hand you COULD name the
> files .php4, .php5 and set apache to pass .php4 files to php4 and .php5
> files to php5..

I guess you're right. Different filenames would be more appropriate.
Doing it with different tags is not impossible, but it would not be
handled by 2 separate modules.

> You can already do this as far as I know.

I _would_ be able to do it if had my own server with full access to
htconfig. But then I would just use PHP5, since it's so much better than
4. Moreover, separation is not encouraged by the language itself. There
are de-facto standards, and handling 5 and 4 separately is not one of
them. Why?

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