On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 14:07 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > 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. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > I thought that files that were deemed to be PHP files (indicated to the web server by the extension and not the content) were sent to the PHP parser, and *that* decided what bits went to the web server as regular output. Thanks Ash www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
