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What exactly do .php files do, i've seen them but never understood the
difference between .htm and .php and why they are used could someone please
inform me.

Thanx

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Brendan OBrien wrote:

> What exactly do .php files do, i've seen them but never understood the
> difference between .htm and .php and why they are used could someone please
> inform me.

PHP files contain programming logic (like .asp, .jsp, .pl, .cgi etc.)
while normal html files contain only static markup text. You can look at
them as small programs which get executed on the web server outputting
HTML to your browser.

See http://www.php.net/

--
Hroi Sigurdsson

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... or in other words:

when you look at an .php -file in your browser you only see the html-code, because php is a programming language which generates html-code

Anders