Another trap for (not so) young players!

Question

I am gradually working up courage to start playing with mySQL
and PHP, and as
part of the process I have had all my sites moved to UNIX
hosts. When the last
site was moved, I found that I could upload to it, but that
was not publicly
visible. When I inquired, I was told it is because my default
file was
Index.htm, which UNIX did not find because it was looking for
index.htm!
Should I change all my filenames to lower case only?
(And David Powers book arrived the other day -- it only took
Amazon about four
weeks to deliver it -- so I no longer have an excuse for
putting it off.)
Clancy

Answer 1

On 24 Sep 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, Clancy wrote:
> I am gradually working up courage to start playing with
mySQL and
> PHP, and as part of the process I have had all my sites
moved to
> UNIX hosts. When the last site was moved, I found that I
could
> upload to it, but that was not publicly visible. When I
inquired, I
> was told it is because my default file was Index.htm,
which UNIX did
> not find because it was looking for index.htm!
>
> Should I change all my filenames to lower case only?
Files where the system expects a specific filename
(index.[whatever]) are
the only time it makes a difference, as long as you know that
myfilename.php is not the same as myFilename.php. I
consistently use
mixed case - myFileName.php; I find it makes it easier to
read. If you
let DW manage your links, you won't have problems with it.
Others will
recommend using uniformly lowercase filenames. If you
consistently use
all lowercase, you'll never type myFilename.php when you
meant
myFileName.php.
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email:
http://makowiec.net/email.php