At 04:00 15/11/00 , you wrote:
>i know this has been brought up before, but here are a few good reasons to
>add .php to the end of all the module files:
>
> 1. security - at least 5 times now i've been able to find out people's
> db name/login by requesting the "/modules/include/global_settings"
> file. without an extension, most servers send it as text. easily
> fixed, but it doesn't seem good to have FT install with such a
> big security hole.
modules is in the doc space, it shouldn't be, or if you have no choice, create
a .htaccess file and drop it into modules, that will stop prying
>
> 2. file transfer - lets ftp clients know to use text or binary, etc.
I have used the extension .inc, but mainly to get syntax coloring in Textpad
using .php could be misleading, since these are includes, not full web pages
per se.
>
> 3. syntax coloring - lets editors know what type of code is in the file
> so that they can color it correctly.
>
> 4. file type - on mac and windows you can tell the OS what program you want
> to open the files with if they have an extension (on windows it uses
> the actual extension, on mac it adds creator info when you
> ftp/untar/checkout the files).
>
>we could add a function that wraps include() and adds the file extension, so
>that if the extension ever needs to be changed/removed it won't be all
>through the code.
>
>like:
>
>ext_include ($file)
>{
> include($file . ".php");
>}
>
>could maybe also do the double-include checking in that function.
>
>- isaac =)
>
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