[RESOLVED] .php or .html

[Nightwalker83]

Hi,

I am currently creating the html/php version of a flash website I had previous created. I wanted to know if it is ok to name a page as a *.php even though it doesn't use php or should it be a *.html file? The major of the pages on the site will be *.php. However one or two pages don't contain any php code.

Thanks,


Nightwalker

[kows]

it doesn't really matter.

anything that has a PHP extension will in turn be parsed by the PHP interpreter; however, the interpreter ignores anything that isn't PHP-code, so it will "skip" over your HTML. this would probably give you a tiny bit of overhead (because the PHP interpreter is indeed being run on the file), but it's going to be completely unnoticeable, and probably irrelevant.

on a side note, I'm interested in knowing what you are doing to not have these one or two pages included in some kind of content management thing.

[Nightwalker83]

it doesn't really matter.

anything that has a PHP extension will in turn be parsed by the PHP interpreter; however, the interpreter ignores anything that isn't PHP-code, so it will "skip" over your HTML. this would probably give you a tiny bit of overhead (because the PHP interpreter is indeed being run on the file), but it's going to be completely unnoticeable, and probably irrelevant.

Ah ok! Thanks

on a side note, I'm interested in knowing what you are doing to not have these one or two pages included in some kind of content management thing.

The two pages that I remember I have included which don't make use of php are the site map and copyright/privacy page. The site map will have links to all the pages on the site and the copyright and privacy page will just have the company copyright/privacy statement on it.

[I_Love_My_Vans]

I know this is resolved, but I though i would add my 2 cents.

If I had the odd page that didn't include PHP I would still be inclined to use the .php file extension, if only to keep my script file types consistent. Also in some envinronments a .html file might open in a different editor to a .php file.

ILMV

[Nightwalker83]

I know this is resolved, but I though i would add my 2 cents.

If I had the odd page that didn't include PHP I would still be inclined to use the .php file extension, if only to keep my script file types consistent. Also in some envinronments a .html file might open in a different editor to a .php file.

ILMV

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too.