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PHP can use the ASP tags

but the thing is your server has to allow PHP and ASP, most are one or the other (with exceptions of course).

Are you using PHP or ASP for anything else?
if you just use PHP, you can keep your .html page extensions

I've never been in this situation before but heres what I was thinking:

If your server has both ASP and PHP then you should be able to have PHP scripts run in .asp files. You can do a few things for that to work right?

I suggested that because some people have PHP run under .html files...

You can include php files in asp pages, if they are parsed separately and then included. You can't just put all different types of scripting in the same file and call it good.

The folks who have php executed in .html files are tricking the server into thinking that .html files are really .php files, these files ARE php files, they just have a fake extension.

How is it a "fake" extension? You can set PHP to execute with any extention, make up your own if you want.

yes but i dont think the server can send the same page for asp parsiing and php parsing so suzanne solution look's like the best one to me

The are "fake" in that the extension is meaningless. This is a terrific advantage for keeping urls constant despite changing technologies, but it can lead to a heavy burden on the server as pages that are normally served static now have to be parsed. Unless EVERY SINGLE PAGE is going to be parsed, it's not an advantage to use a fake/false/trick extension that has a real purpose, such as .html and .htm.

It was a while ago, and my memory may have warped on me. But after reading a document of some kind, I had the impression that Apache 2 could send a single file through multiple file handlers. Of course, I would expect the second file handler to begin with the output of the first file handler.

Why would you want this? Well, you could have .php files go through the SSI file handler before being passed to the php parser. Then you could have SSI tags include files in your php scripts (as ASP pages do).

But.. I don't see this being a solution here.

Generally speaking, I think it's considered good practice to keep technologies (such as ASP and PHP) from intertwining too closely.

Mark/Suzanne: what if they use an include? will that file be parsed by its parser and the result included? if so would that be safer than multiple parsers?

As far as I know, ASP's file include system is simply SSI, which would just insert the php file's source and not parse it. I don't really see a way to do it in PHP either.

I would strongly suggest trying to keep your site on one technology. Be it ASP or PHP.