Advantages or disadvantages of .inc files

What are the advantages or disadvantages of .inc files over the
'include' statement. I can't seem to find that information at the PHP
website.

Also the same for form building inline, I guess you would call it, and
HTML template objects. File types of .tpl and .ihtml?

Thanks in Advance...
IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us
__________________________________________________ ________________________

'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
-William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)

IchBin wrote:
> What are the advantages or disadvantages of .inc files over the
> 'include' statement. I can't seem to find that information at the PHP
> website.
>
> Also the same for form building inline, I guess you would call it, and
> HTML template objects. File types of .tpl and .ihtml?
>
> Thanks in Advance...
> IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us
> __________________________________________________ ________________________
>
> 'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
> -William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)

To answer your first question:
if *.inc files were called directly via the browser's url, most likely
it's content would be displayed unparsed. So your entire code would be
naked on the internet, including possible passwords etc.)

Instead if you want to use '.inc', you could use file.inc.php, which
would be parsed before outputted to the browser.

Frizzle.

frizzle wrote:
> IchBin wrote:
>> What are the advantages or disadvantages of .inc files over the
>> 'include' statement. I can't seem to find that information at the PHP
>> website.
>>
>> Also the same for form building inline, I guess you would call it, and
>> HTML template objects. File types of .tpl and .ihtml?
>>
>> Thanks in Advance...
>> IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us
>> __________________________________________________ ________________________
>>
>> 'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
>> -William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)
>
> To answer your first question:
> if *.inc files were called directly via the browser's url, most likely
> it's content would be displayed unparsed. So your entire code would be
> naked on the internet, including possible passwords etc.)
>
> Instead if you want to use '.inc', you could use file.inc.php, which
> would be parsed before outputted to the browser.
>
> Frizzle.
>


Or include the following in your .htaccess file:

<Files ~ "\.inc$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>

The only "advantage" for using different extensions is that each extension
helps identify the contents of each file. I use .php for scripts which can
be executed, and .inc for scripts which must be included instead of
executed. I presume Smarty use .tpl to identify its template files. It is
just a matter of convention.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org



"IchBin" <weconsul@ptd.net> wrote in message
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>
> What are the advantages or disadvantages of .inc files over the 'include'
> statement. I can't seem to find that information at the PHP website.
>
> Also the same for form building inline, I guess you would call it, and
> HTML template objects. File types of .tpl and .ihtml?
>
> Thanks in Advance...
> IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us
> __________________________________________________ ________________________
>
> 'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
> -William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)

"Juliette" <jrf_no_spam@jokeaday.net> wrote in message
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> frizzle wrote:
>> IchBin wrote:
>>> What are the advantages or disadvantages of .inc files over the
>>> 'include' statement. I can't seem to find that information at the PHP
>>> website.
>>>
>>> Also the same for form building inline, I guess you would call it, and
>>> HTML template objects. File types of .tpl and .ihtml?
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance...
>>> IchBin, Pocono Lake, Pa, USA http://weconsultants.phpnet.us
>>> __________________________________________________ ________________________
>>>
>>> 'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
>>> -William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)
>>
>> To answer your first question:
>> if *.inc files were called directly via the browser's url, most likely
>> it's content would be displayed unparsed. So your entire code would be
>> naked on the internet, including possible passwords etc.)
>>
>> Instead if you want to use '.inc', you could use file.inc.php, which
>> would be parsed before outputted to the browser.
>>
>> Frizzle.
>>
>
>
> Or include the following in your .htaccess file:
>
> <Files ~ "\.inc$">
> Order allow,deny
> Deny from all
> </Files>

You can also put .inc files in a directory which is outside the web root, or
in a password-protected directory so that its contents cannot be accessed
through the web server.

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org