For required/included files in PHP, is it better to use .inc
extensions vs .inc.php
vs .php
extensions?
Sometimes people use the .inc
extension and then do some server configuration to keep .inc
files from being accessed via a web browser. This might be good, if done absolutely correctly by a knowledgeable sysadmin, but there's a better way: Any file that's not supposed to be accessed by web users should be kept outside your document root. Once these files are off the web, so to speak, you can use whatever extension you want. .php
is definitely a sensible choice for syntax highlighting, general sanity, and so on.
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