Hi

I'm just learning how to use includes in PHP and I was doing some stuff today and discovered that instead of converting my text file to a php page and then using includes to display the content I could just leave if as a text file and include it that way, allthough I did notice that different browsers displayed commas incorrectly. I was wondering,

1. Is this bad practice?

2. Safe and secure?

3. Bad for SEO?

Thanks

grownupstudent

from what I can find, it's pretty secure.

The only flaw is if you use...

include($variable)

where $variable is a $_GET

otherwise, I think you should be good

I think it should be fine. However, you might also consider using smarty templating. I've found I like it much better than using php includes. You can abstract out your views and also pass variables and put conditional logic.

http://www.smarty.net/

Originally Posted by grownupstudent

Hi

I'm just learning how to use includes in PHP and I was doing some stuff today and discovered that instead of converting my text file to a php page and then using includes to display the content I could just leave if as a text file and include it that way, allthough I did notice that different browsers displayed commas incorrectly. I was wondering,

1. Is this bad practice?

2. Safe and secure?

3. Bad for SEO?

Thanks

grownupstudent

Using PHP is a perfect and easy method of building a template system. As far is the content is concerned, be sure to remember to use standard HTML and use the same text-encoding as your web pages are setup (such as UTF-8)

Thanks guys for the replys much appreciated.