Make all files .php

Anon

Hello

I want to include my menu on each html file in my site. My menu is an DHTML and Javascripts codes. Is ok to just rename all my files .php and add

include("menu.html");

so the server will parse all html files or should I use server side include?

OOzy

jc94062

In my experience include will include html, inc, htm, php, php3, php4, pretty much anything just fine.

jc94062

Incidently on this point, if your gonna to include a .inc file thats in public_html and not in a cgi-bin or some other directory outside the public access one, beware, as the code can be seen, its a nasty feeling to find out that your db connect details have been sitting in the publics view for 3 days even if the site wasn't open to the public at that time...

Anon

How is the code viewable?
Whenever someone requests the file from the server, whatever is sent to the client is already parsed isnt it?
I know that the user may be able to see the error messages but how is the user going to see the source?

Anon

http://whatever.com/include/database.inc
because inc extensions are not parsed so they will be visible in any explorer

Anon

Oh,
i was under the impression we were talking about making all files .php , like the topic says 🙂

sorry.

Anon

Hello Guys

Thank you for your help.

Sorry may be I did not ask the question right. All what I meant is it ok to make all my files .php instead .htm. Is not this going to overhead the server.

OOzy

jc94062

Why would a .php file stress the server more than a .htm one?

Saying

<BODY>
<p>Hello World</p>
</BODY>

instead of

<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>

isn't going to make much difference I'd have thought...

Anon

You certainly can rename all your files to *.php...

It will make a bit more of an overhead for the server but it's only really an issue if you're serving out thousands of hits a day.

The reason for the overhead is that .htm / .html files are parsed on the client side (the users browser) whereas *.php files have to be parsed through the php engine, hence creating more of an overhead on the server...

;o)