whats the difference between .php and .html

[b1b2b3]

I have seen lots of web pages that have been named index.php rather then index.html.

I would like to know what the difference is and whether these people have certain features on that page so it needs to be called .php instead of .html.

Just a simple explanation would be ok.

Thanks

[pyro]

You asked for simple, so that's what you get... ;)

Pages with a .php extention will be processed as PHP, and thus can contain PHP code. Pages with a .html extention generally are not processed as PHP (they can be made to, if one wants to) and cannot contain PHP code.

[dreamcatcher]

You can edit your .htaccess file so that your server will parse .html files for PHP content. Think its something like:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

Although I`m not 100% sure.

:confused:

[pyro]

Yep, if you are on an Apache server that should work...
Originally posted by pyro
(they can be made to, if one wants to)
I think I'd just leave it as .php though...