File extension other than .php

HelenLee

Hi,

I have inherit an application and the previous developer uses index.do instead of index.php. I went into VS and associate the .do file type to PHP Tool and the IDE recognizes it as a php file. However, it won't start the debug session unless I change the extension back to php. How do I set it up so I can debug the PHP file with a different extension? The application is running on PHP 5.4, using default web server in VS 2017.

Thank you for your help in advance.
Helen

JakubMisek

Hi,

The file association is correct. Also starting debug session (by default F5 key) should work as well (it does not care about the file extension).

However; if you're using the builtin web server, it can only handle .php and .html to be requested from your browser (more at https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php)

You have to change the web server to IIS Express (here https://docs.devsense.com/en/vs/installation/install-php#select-or-install-php-version) which allows you to handle .do files by editing web.config file and adding the extension into <handlers> section.

Please let us know how it works for you.

HelenLee

I added an additional handler like the following in the web.config as suggested. It didn't work when I tried to separate two extensions by a comma, so I just add a different line. The application can now bring up index.do.

<add name="PHP54_via_FastCGI_do" path="*.do" verb="GET,HEAD,POST" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Program Files (x86)\iis express\PHP\v5.4\php-cgi.exe" resourceType="Either" />

The next error I'm running into is this one :

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgOxq92somz3qj7cg9UaKva5iHdg?e=d2yGzi

The same code runs fine on the server running Apache, so I wonder if I'm still missing some configuration? I'm not well versed in php, I'm hoping someone could give me some pointers on where I should look.

Thank you,
Helen

JakubMisek

I'm glad the .do files work now.

What you see is a debug warning which is usually not displayed when running on a production server. Is it possible it is a (silent) error in the code? This is affected by the php's configuration display_errors (https://www.php.net/manual/en/errorfunc.configuration.php#ini.display-errors)

HelenLee

Yes, that fixed it! Thank you for helping out a php newbie.

Have a great day!

JakubMisek

You too Helen!