[TYPO3-core] RFC: renaming *.inc files

[Michael Stucki]

Hi René,

> TYPO3 has a few files with the suffix *.inc which are in fact PHP files.
> The locations are
> .../tslib/media/scripts/*.inc
> typo3/class.*.inc
>
> The question is to rename the files to *.php

+1

> There's no strong reason to rename the files except that it might be
> possible to fetch the *.inc files as text file when a webserver is not
> configured to execute these files as PHP script. I don't know if it is a
> security risk. The main point is consistency I think.

I think the reason for using *.inc was that these could be edited while *.php 
were not allowed to be edited...(?)

> In the typo3/ folder the *.inc files are classes that are used in BE module
> scripts. I think they can be renamed.
> But we should stay with the XCLASS defnition of these files for
> compatibility
> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS[TYPO3_MODE]['XCLASS']['typo3/class.db_list_extra.inc']
>
> A possible solution might be to have the XCLASS stuff twice, with *.inc and
> *.php.

+1 for using both, marking the old one as deprecated and giving priority to 
the new one.

- michael
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