Re: FN-FORUM: Extension-less files in Dreamweaver

date posted 16th January 2005 15:44

At 16:50 on Sunday, 16 Jan 2005, Joe Freeman wrote:

>
> I've always done it with a php file that looks at the URL, then
> request the necessary page either from file or from a database. Not
> very pretty to have '.php' half-way through a URL - IMO. But for now I
> guess I'll just stick with that. I prefer to just work with files
> directly with Dreamweavers FTP functionality (so they are the same
> where ever I am), so changing the filename each time would be a bit of
> a hastle really.
>
> So I guess it's not really possible to open extension-less files -
> seems like a bit of a design flaw really - can't even open htaccess
> files.

I googled this up:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum88/2714.htm

interesting discussion, you are not alone... a number of useful
suggestions there too.

see also:

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?event=view&id=KC.tn_16410&extid=tn_16410&dialogID=1456813&iterationID=1&sessionID=4830d58be675v$3F$1A$&stateID=0%200%201460250&mode=simple

or http://tinyurl.com/54gtj