filenaming (file.inc or file.inc.php)?

Dont use .inc extension as it will display the content of the file on the browser.

filename.inc.php extension, lets u know that its an included file,not like any other php file .
if the extension is .php the server will try to execute the file when open in the browser like so there shd not be any print statment in these types of files so that it will show u just a bkank page.

i will go for '.inc.php'

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A couple of things with include().

PHP doesn't care what the file is called. It doesn't have to have the .php or the .inc extension -- you can issue "include('file.foo')" and if that file contains valid PHP code, PHP will execute it.

include() can include a file from anywhere in the filesystem. If you have an included file that contains sensitive information, put it somewhere outside the root of that virtual web server. It makes it that much harder for hostile agencies to get to your information. You only have to make sure that the user under which your web server runs has permission to read the file. ______________________________________________________________________
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The differences you saw all depend on how the web server is configured. Some are configured to show .inc files at all. Others interpret them the same as .php files. Still others don't know how to handle them, and thus display them in the browser as text. The same way that you tell a server how to handle .php and .php3 files, you can tell it to handle any file type with an interpreter.

Heck, if you wanted, you could make your server work where all files that had an extension of .mynameisfred as PHP files. Not very efficient, but it would work.

As for include(), as sleipnir says above, PHP doesn't care what extension you use for your include files, as long as you have the extension in the file name in the include() statement.
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if you want use inc extention you may create .htaccess file:
<Files *.inc>
Order Deny
Deny from all
</Files>

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Valeriy Shvec
AlarIT programmer