Why can't I find contents in eg. .php files?

If I press "Apple+F" in Finder to bring up the search dialog, and try to search files where "Name contains .php" and "Contents whatever", Finder show me the .php files in the folder when specifying the first criteria, but as soon as I start typing a text to search for in "Contents" all the .php files disappear again even though the search text is found in some of the .php files.
I tried creating a simple text file and copied it to test.php, test.css, test.html, test.xml and test.whatever. Search for contents works fine for the files with extension .html, .xml and .whatever, but for .css and .php it doesn't work.
Can somebody please explain to me why Finder behaves different with different extensions, and if there is a way I can make it search for contents in .php files?
Regards,
Christian

The content part of the Spotlight data base depends on there being mdimport plug-ins for that type of content. If there is no mdimporter then the content is not indexed, and there isn't one for either php or css files. See the link in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5571301#5571301
If the hacking business doesn't appeal to you the only other work around I can think of is to save a copy of the php and css files with a .txt extension, which is content indexed.
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