HTML vs SHTML vs PHTML

A.N.M. Saiful Islam picture A.N.M. Saiful Islam · Dec 17, 2009 · Viewed 24.8k times · Source

What is the difference between:

HTML
SHTML
PHTML

Why and when i'll use which one?

Answer

GrayWizardx picture GrayWizardx · Dec 17, 2009

It looks like SHTML = Server Side include HTML (SSI), which is just a fancy way of saying the server can dynamically inject code at the reference point (i.e. where the include is).

PHTML is HTML code with inline PHP processing instructions.