Originally posted by JoshT


No, this is arbitrary. You can configure the server to process any file extension you want as php (or anything else). You could map *.php files to Perl and *.asp files to PHP if you wanted.
I see your point, but

in the meantime when you set the server up to parse anything as php (if it was an isp) then it would mess everyone else up. Unless they own there own server it might be an idea, but if it is a shared server it wouldn't work too well.

I would stick with .php or .phtml becasue it is easier.