Gary wrote:
I've done a number of sites in html and am now venturing into php.
Can I create a page in html and insert php code that will work? (for
example, take an existing page and insert a date command)
if it has the file extension .php then it will be passed through php and
compiled; otherwise the php source code you insert will just show up in
the html source.
Can I create a page with the php extension that contains only contains html
and no php? If so are there advantages/disadvantages?
yep; advantage is if you later add in some php to the page it'll compile
(see above)
Can I mix and match file formats (php/html) in a single site?
yep, every file is a different file
Thanks for any input.
Gary
np; you may get some comments about being able to configure you're
server so that php parses files with different extensions (such as
.html); but this would require some customisation of the web server
config files and probably best avoided for now.
note: sometimes it is worth always having each script/html page in it's
own directory with the default file name; that way you can upgrade chop
and change without changing the page urls - ie:
if you make /contact/index.html or /contact/index.php
then the url /contact/ will show the default index page, allowing you to
swap and change
whereas if you have /contact.html then you'll need to rename the file to
contact.php and thus you're urls will change unnessacerily.
ps: wd for choosing php :)
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