a php file, but no extension

blade007 · 22 Jun 2006 at 22:59

is this alright or not?

rather than having say, "login.php" as a file, it has just "login" with no extension. it is a php file ... it seems to display OK. (I have not done this but have seen other people do it). why?

Beansprout · 22 Jun 2006 at 23:21

It's trendy to do URLs with no extension by a little bit of .htaccess trickery (or, even, creating the folders and having the scripts as index.php files within the folder)

toosepin · 22 Jun 2006 at 23:39

You can rewrite the URLs without the extension. I admit, it looks neater if

http://www.insanelyamazingurl.com/archives/misc.shtml

becomes

http://www.insanelyamazingurl.com/archives/misc

Augmented · 22 Jun 2006 at 23:49

Beansprout said:
It's trendy

Well more important than being trendy, it's good forward thinking. Stops you locking your site into a particular technology. Potential huge timesaver for the tiny effort required to implement.

/login is good for login.aspx, login.php, login.htm...

Dj_Jestar · 22 Jun 2006 at 23:54

It also help (albeit not much) against malicious attacks.. without an extension, it adds the little extra step for someone to work out which technology you are using.

robmiller · 23 Jun 2006 at 01:30

Dj_Jestar said:
It also help (albeit not much) against malicious attacks.. without an extension, it adds the little extra step for someone to work out which technology you are using.

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.4

Beansprout · 23 Jun 2006 at 01:35

Augmented said:
Well more important than being trendy, it's good forward thinking. Stops you locking your site into a particular technology. Potential huge timesaver for the tiny effort required to implement.

/login is good for login.aspx, login.php, login.htm...

You got me there by reminding me of Cool URIs

I do agree of course, just said trendy because I was lazy...honest... :eek:

Augmented · 23 Jun 2006 at 09:19

robmiller said:
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.4

Code:

// php.ini
expose_php = Off

But, yes, security through obscurity is weak at the best of times.

Dj_Jestar · 23 Jun 2006 at 09:46

hence me adding "(albeit not much)" in my reply..

kiwi · 26 Jun 2006 at 00:18

looking at it a different way, assuming the filesystem in a unix-based one there is no need for a extension.

Moredhel · 26 Jun 2006 at 00:28

As said in the cool urls article linked above, don't think of the URI space as having to mirror the filesystem. Treat them as seperate entities and you can be as creative as you like.

mod_rewrite is such an amazing tool.

Dj_Jestar · 26 Jun 2006 at 01:14

kiwi said:
looking at it a different way, assuming the filesystem in a unix-based one there is no need for a extension.

What OS is on the server makes little to no difference at all when it comes to handling HTTP requests via a Webserver app like Apache.