HTML to PHP questio

LAN_Rover · Posted: Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:16 pm HTML to PHP questio

My website was designed and written in HTML, but to save time updating and changing I've added some php elements (like inlcudes).

So now all the pages have a .php extention instead of .html

My question is twofold, before I upload the new pages and delete the old ones I'd like to know if
A) users who have bookmarked the website will still be able to get there, or will I need to keep the index.html and put a redirect function in; and
B) if I do leave the index.html in there, which page will browsers load, the .php or .html ??

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

If you delete the old pages and a user tries to access that url then they we get an error.

In a standard setup usually index.html would take precedence over .php.

You can change both of these settings via server settings.

If you have Apache/*nix then you can use .htaccess to make the PHP scripts the primary scripts.
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess6.shtml

or you can redirect to the new page
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess7.shtml

Also, you could even change it so that your HTML pages can process the PHP by using addType and/or addHandler

LAN_Rover · Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:33 pm

excellent, that's exactly what i was looking for

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