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eric bruce
Courses Plus Student 109 Pointsiv read its bad to wright a page as a php but these tutorials seam to be teaching that is this ok to do this?
iv been learning php before i came here and a lot of what iv raid said that its better to pass information from php to an html file then to wright a page in a php file not shore which is correct
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thomascawthorn
22,986 PointsThis is a beginners guide to php so it's not overly strict on code design. Normally you would try to separate out your concerns a little more. However, I think there is an upcoming video where Randy refactors the code to fit a more MVC design.
jasonjones5
Courses Plus Student 5,571 Pointsjasonjones5
Courses Plus Student 5,571 PointsIt's considered more secure to hide php extensions so your server side set up can't be figured out easily. In reality, if someone wants to know what you're running they're probably smart enough to figure it out anyway. The problem is handling php extensions as html takes a bit of work. If you run a typical html file as html with php in it, it will probably output some garbage or ignore the php. To get it to run php as an html extension you need to edit the htaccess file. They may have avoided doing it because if you mess things up you've potentially got a problem overall. That's my understanding anyway.