Did you know that you are able to change the characteristics of a static file such as a .html or .txt file to allow it to accept dynamic code such as php or asp? Well you can, here’s how…
Lets say you’re looking to create a dynamic .csv or .txt for a shopping feed for one of the shopping comparison search engines such as Shopping.com, normally, you would not be able to do so because .xml/.txt/.csv files are static and would not ordinalrily execute php commands to output the products from a database.
The solution…
Place the following code in your .htaccess file:
<Files filename.csv>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>
That should do the trick. Change “filename” for your file’s name and the “.csv” to .xml, .txt or even .html depending on what you’re trying to accomplish.
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