Posted by Jasen Betts on 02/12/06 08:26

On 2006-02-12, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Andy Hassall wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:56:08 -0500, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Jasen Betts wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 2006-02-11, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Why not just include() the file?
>>>>
>>>>not reccomended for binary files - they might have <? in them somewhere...
>>>
>>>He didn't say the were binary files.
>>>
>>>And even if they were, he'd have exactly the same problem with
>>>readfile() - which he is currently using.
>>
>>
>> No, readfile() doesn't execute the file as PHP. include() does. They're very
>> different..
>>
>
> Please read the original post. He is not outputing a php file. It is
> text - and would not be executed.

php files are (usually) text files...
With include() it would be executed if it contained php tags.
The .php filename extension is only significant to the web server.




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Bye.
Jasen

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