Hiding PHP

[Rita Harp]

Hi

I want to hide the php files from my urls.

My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.

So instead of this ...

xxx.com/about.php

.... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...

xxx.com/about/

This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.


Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?

Would appreciate any other ideas/advice!

thanks
Rita

[Dalibor Karlovic]

Rita Harp wrote:

> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php
> file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?

This has been talked about few weeks ago, search the group archive on Google
groups. Keyword: mod_rewrite.

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[jack]

Rita Harp wrote:

> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.

Why?

> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?

No. Try apache's mod_rewrite for rewriting URL's into whatever you want.

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[Kevin Thorpe]

Rita Harp wrote:

> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?
>
> Would appreciate any other ideas/advice!

If you have access to reconfigure the server then tell it to run .html
files through the php module. No-one will know what you've used then.

Just watch sessions though. They sometimes add something like
?PHPSESSID=xxxxxxxxx to the url. You can change what the session id is
called to hide that though.

[David Zawislak]

Rita Harp wrote:

> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?
>
> Would appreciate any other ideas/advice!
>
> thanks
> Rita

Name the file index.php.
HTH

[Patrick Johnson]

[email]rita_harp@hotmail.com[/email] (Rita Harp) wrote in message news:<59fcae49.0309240037.2bafc594@posting.google. com>...

> Hi
>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?
>
> Would appreciate any other ideas/advice!
>
> thanks
> Rita

If you're using Apache you could edit your .htaccess file or
httpd.conf to use ForceType. Your code would look like this:

<Files about>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

Then you could rename your "about.php" to just "about".

[Tim Tyler]

Rita Harp <rita_harp@hotmail.com> wrote or quoted:

> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?

Yes - I believe so.

This approach encapsulates the server-side technology in use - allowing
you to switch technologies at a later date without your public interface
changing.
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[Luke Ross]

Hi,

Rita Harp wrote:

>
> I want to hide the php files from my urls.
>
> My only idea is to have each file in its own directory as a default.php file.
>
> So instead of this ...
>
> xxx.com/about.php
>
> ... rename about.php to default.php and put in a directory /about ...
>
> xxx.com/about/
>
> This way I dont need to reference any php files explicitly.
>
>
> Is this the best idea in regards to this issue?
>
> Would appreciate any other ideas/advice!

I personally use MultiViews for this, and then the web server tries
various combinations of server-side-language, content-language,
content-type and compression levels. Apache guesses which file is most
likely to be the required one.

[url]http://httpd.apache.org/docs/content-negotiation.html[/url]

Regards,

Luke