html links like PHP?? *confuse*

[whutadilly]

http://www.blink-182.org/
^^ click.

if you see menu on the left, in Picture section, there are links like this : http://blink-182.org/pictures.html?cat=travis

how can HTML documents have links like ... filename.html?what=whatever? i usually see name.ext?what=whatever in PHP or ASP... :S

 

[Canuckkev]

It's still a server parsed file (PHP, ASP or something), they just used little server tricks to make it seem like an HTML page. Most servers run Apache, and Apache has all sorts of little tricks like that you can do.

One other time you may find something similar is that the page might actually be an html page, and the GET variables are used in some javascript on the page or something.

 

[GregT]

You can assign any file extension you want to a scripting language with Apache.
For php you can stick this in a .htaccess file and all html files in that folder are parsed with php.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

 

[mattsoft]

still need help with this?

 

[whutadilly]

nope - thanks a lot for your replies :classic2:

 

[greg76]

LOL,

thanks GregT for the piece of code, now i have added .htaccess file and allowed all files with my name as an extension to be read, too

 

[ghobro]

thanks Greg T

 

[ghobro]

but when i do it, when i browse, i must download the file/ not see it like .php extension

 

[mattsoft]

but when i do it, when i browse, i must download the file/ not see it like .php extension

you have a .php file that's downloading insted of displaying in the browser? that's bad configuration of the server. the mimes have to be set up for php.