Opinions wanted

[Jazajay]

Wack this in your .htaccess file and you can leave the file extensions off all together as every file is deemed to be php by default unless specified otherwise.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

So you could access a page then by typing in ~
example.com/dir/page
rather than ~
example.com/page.htm

That way even if you changed your whole site from php to asp all you would have to do is change this 1 line
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.asp

And every file gets parsed as a asp document instead. Now that's future proof, lol.

Jaz

Key:
Red ~ .htaccess

 

[Harry]

That's nice

 

[Jazajay]

Are dude it is you know how an*l I get over extra characters imagine what I was like when I realized I can leave file extensions off in links, lol.

 

[Levi]

Wack this in your .htaccess file and you can leave the file extensions off all together as every file is deemed to be php by default unless specified otherwise.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php

So you could access a page then by typing in ~
example.com/dir/page
rather than ~
example.com/page.htm

That way even if you changed your whole site from php to asp all you would have to do is change this 1 line
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.asp

And every file gets parsed as a asp document instead. Now that's future proof, lol.

Jaz

Key:
Red ~ .htaccess

completely lost me with this, doesn't help that I'm bunged up with cold/flu so a simpletons explanation might be good for me, most of my files still end up as html anyways

 

[Harry]

For the time being I'd stick with the solution I gave you.

Jaz's is good but probably a bit more 'another-word-for-advanced-that-doesn't-sound-patronising' for what you need,

 

[Levi]

hey I just sit down and watch the show when you two start going at it with ideas/techniques, I'm nowhere near your levels

 

[Jazajay]

lol when we go at it, lol.
Basically what that does is tells the server to run all files as php unless you specifiy otherwise.

So

example.com/dir/some-page

is the same as
example.com/dir/some-page.php

If you want to change it to parse all files as html files unless the extension is on create a blank file, name it .htaccess, put this in it and upload it to your root directory.

So~
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html

Then type in the browser if you are running a test server ~
localhost/dir/some-page

and it will display the same minus the file extension as ~
localhost/dir/some-page.html

If you upload it to your server and get a 500 error just delete the .htaccess file off it.

Jaz