View file extension php; can it be html?

[eluser]JP_Notts[/eluser]
Hi Colin, I may be new to CodeIgnighter, but I've been developing php apps for over ten years now and I've never heard anybody raise the concern that you do. The 'standard' 'out of the box' Apche + php set-up does guarantee to parse php content within html files.
The reason for my question was that at present I develop within the SilverStripe framework and it was a pain to set-up dreamweaver & expressions to recognize template code within template files (very similar to view file in CodeIgniter). It would have been nice to be able to develop view files in HTML/php format for this reason. Especially when modern IDE's have code recognition intelligence for both within the same editor page, although the CSS functionality within these same IDE's still only applies itself to files with html file extensions.

Thanks for the example though, it gives CodeIgniter yet another tick in the box for me.

Regards.

Jonathan