Clarification on .html.php file names

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I was going through the tutorials and noticed Kevin has some files named .html.php (example: error.html.php). I may have missed where he mentioned it, but I was curious as to why. Why not name it just error.php?

Thank you

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I believe that html is included in the name as a note so you know the the file content is html, as opposed to php scripting.
Which tutorial specifically are you referring to? I suspect it is one on SP by @kevinyank

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Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, PHP and MySQL for beginners.
He has it in Lesson 6, Step 6: Handling SELECT Result Sets.
Just a bit odd as won’t the file names give you a good enough indication of what the file will be doing? Very nit picky on my part, but was just very curious.

Thanks again

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If the filemane ended with .html then it would not be parsed as php. So it needs the .php extension on the end to work.

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Oh, right. I was thinking error.php, instead of error.html.php. Understood that it needs the php on the end.

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Yes, the .php is to make it parse as php and the .html is just for the coder’s benefit, so you know that it’s an html template file as opposed to a php script, it’s not actually required, but can be helpful.

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