On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ashley Sheridan <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk>wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 11:48 -0500, ad...@buskirkgraphics.com wrote: > > > Add this to your .htaccess file and HTML files will be handled like PHP > > files allowing you put PHP in HTML files. > > > > AddType application/x-httpd-php .html > > > > > I wouldn't recommend having .html parsed as PHP though, as it will slow > down your website/application unnecessarily for any .html files that > contain no PHP code, as PHP still has to parse the file for any code, > even if there is none. Leave .html files for static pages that you > produce with a PHP app for example, or use MOD_REWRITE to reference PHP > scripts when certain .html files are requested by the browser, as this > can be a whole lot more specific and selective and won't introduce > problems later on. > I tend to disagree with Ashley on this topic. For many websites, I'll start out making all pages .php, even if they don't require PHP at the moment. That's for a couple reasons. 1) A few years back, there was certainly a significant performance advantage to keeping essentially static pages html. However, in my current benchmarking (using both siege and ab on my Ubuntu servers using apache with mod_php), if I use a cache such as APC and a well-configured apache server, PHP tends to perform just as well (or sometimes even better) than the html version. Rasmus has demonstrated similar performance results: http://talks.php.net/show/froscon08/24 2) I don't want to have to change urls site-wide and set up redirects from the old url whenever a page requires adding dynamic capabilities. By making all pages PHP right from the beginning, adding dynamic capabilities is a snap as I just add the functionality. Adam -- Nephtali: A simple, flexible, fast, and security-focused PHP framework http://nephtaliproject.com
