Start Page Name

[Daisy]

Hi,

I am a very new newbie to PHP. I have much experience with html but none with php.

I have a question regarding the naming convention of the index page. I have seen several php sites on the internet and the start page name varies:

index.php
home.php

Other sites have no index or home just the http://www.mysite.com/

What are the benefits (if any) of the three different naming conventions?
Is one better than another?

THANKS!
(It will be the first of many).

[67coronet383]

Daisy wrote:

Hi,

I am a very new newbie to PHP. I have much experience with html but none with php.

I have a question regarding the naming convention of the index page. I have seen several php sites on the internet and the start page name varies:

index.php
home.php

Other sites have no index or home just the http://www.mysite.com/

What are the benefits (if any) of the three different naming conventions?
Is one better than another?

THANKS!
(It will be the first of many).

If you reffer to a website like so or to a dirctory with a brower with no filename (such as index or home.php, .htm, .html, ect) your browser automatically looks for a file named index, home, or main, ect.

As far as using home or index, I always use index because it's personal preference and I think it's the safer choice because it will be more widely recognized as a start page, index page.

[Tezread]

I second that. Use 'index' as this is what people are familiar with