Is it mandatory to save PHP code in .PHP extention?

**certify** · Aug 20, 2001, 11:44

Assuminng the below codes and I want to save it in .SHTML extention. will it still work?

<head>
<body>

<table>
<tr><td>
<font face="verdana" size="1">Test Page.....</font></td></tr>
</td></tr>

<tr><td>

<?php

chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/vb_folder");
require("./global.php");
chdir($DOCUMENT_ROOT . "/whateverthefoldernameis");

if ($bbuserinfo['userid']==0) {
echo"<center><font size=1 color=red style=verdana>You need to log in!</font>";
}
else
{
$username=$bbuserinfo['username'];
}

?>

</td></tr>
</table>

</body>
</html>

**freddydoesphp** · Aug 20, 2001, 11:47

Not unless you specify that in a .htaccess fiel or in your server config file assuming your are using Apache. Also I am not sure as to whether your server config will have a conflict of interest so to speak, because if your server is set up to parse .shtml files as SSI, then I think it might have a problem with trying to parse it as PHP at the same time.