Jay Garcia wrote: > Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >> Jay Garcia wrote: >>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: >>>> I'd agree that's the case ... but ya never know. I have a site or >>>> two that are completely done in PHP, but all display the pages' >>>> filenames as "example.html". It's a simple matter to add a command >>>> to the .htaccess file to process .html files as PHP. Visitors >>>> can't tell. <g> >>>> >>>> # Process .html files as php >>>> AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .html .php .htm >>> >>> The only problem one will run into with that htaccess entry is if >>> you access a MySQL database from your PHP page(s). >> >> Why would that be? I use MySQL on most of my sites and there is nary >> a glitch. If yours give problems, there must be something amiss with >> your code. Are your files HTML pages with some embedded PHP, or are >> they PHP scripts that have embedded/outputted HTML? Mine are all the >> latter. What I mean is, the first line of them all is: <?php > > What I'm getting at is that the htaccess entry is faking the system
Sort of true. :-0 > which does not make the actual PHP => MySQL compliant. I've not heard that. Do you have a reference? > There is nothing wrong with the code and it is all 100% PHP not > embedded. A good example is Wordpress. Some older WP does not run > well on PHP 5 but at the same time some WP that runs on PHP 4 > actually runs better on PHP 5. Oh. WordPress. "All Bets Are Off!!" >>> All 30+ domains on my servers run the latest PHP 5 and MySQL 5.x >>> with only some minor adjustments to the DB's as well as the PHP. >>> But there can be major problems when running very old PHP/MySQL >>> when upgrading to the 5's. >> >> Of course. But it depends. I started using PHP with the earliest of >> version 4, and some scripts from a decade ago are still running >> unchanged. > > And those scripts may actually run better on 5. ;-) Some do, I think, but I'd have to be using a pretty slow processor to notice. But it's not really about speed; it is more about using old function calls, now obsolete and removed from the newer version. -- -bts -Four wheels carry the body; two wheels move the soul _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
