Re: why does PHP parse "*.html" files in one subdir/ but not in another?

On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 07:18:34PM +0100, Stuart wrote: > 2009/7/19 Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>: > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:30:33AM +0530, kranthi wrote: > > > >> > >> > You do realize that PHP does not parse HTML files, right? The web server > >> > does that. In fact, the web server also parses PHP files, using a > >> > different library. > >> > >> Kindly elaborate If you are saying that PHP cant parse files with > >> extension .html > >> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/security.hiding.php. > > > > That's exactly what I'm saying. Apache or IIS (or whatever) discern the > > contents of a file and determine how to parse it. As far as I know, > > Apache, even with a PHP file, parses the HTML in the file and hands PHP > > off to a PHP module to decode. The PHP engine itself does not parse the > > HTML which is interspersed in and amongst your PHP code. The web server > > does that. Unless some php internals person says otherwise, that's the > > story. At best, the PHP engine would simply echo non-PHP text to the > > browser, which is not parsing it. > > Actually that's not accurate. The web server does nothing with a file > before it passes it to the PHP engine. PHP gets the entire file, it > simply echo's anything not inside PHP tags. Then I stand corrected. But again, this means that PHP doesn't actually *parse* the HTML it echoes. Paul -- Paul M. Foster