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

date posted 16th January 2005 17:05

Personally I'd have said anyone who is going to type in a whole URL
isn't going to be bothered by putting '.php' or .anythingelse at the
end. I think most people get to sites by remembering the root URL and
navigating from there, or through a search engine, or a bookmark (not
particularly in that order.) Even my techie (non-web) mates are amazed
when I remember whole URLs rather than just the site name. I don't have
any statistics or studies to back this opinion up, just what I've seen
people do using the web.

Therefore, I'd just use .whatever on the sites where you want to use DW.

On the other way this thread is going: I'm a bit sniffy about using DW
to maintain sites, but that's my coding-elitist side coming through.
Both DW and Contribute are very handy tools for maintenance at a certain
level.

Paul

On 16 Jan 2005 16:50:10 -0000, "Joe Freeman" said:
>
> 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.
>
> Regards, Joe.
>
> On 16 Jan 2005 16:27:00 -0000, Tony Crockford [EMAIL REMOVED]
> wrote:
> > At 15:31 on Sunday, 16 Jan 2005, Joe Freeman wrote:
> > > Because I want to use friendly URLs and use Dreamwever to edit the page.
> > isn't friendly url's about using directories and mod-rewrite, rather than
> > extensionless files?
> >
> > alternatively, why don't you use extensions locally for dreamweaver and
> > then strip them off when you upload them to the server?
> >
> > wouldn't take much effort to have a script that adds and extension or
> > removes an extension from all files in a directory
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