Can I simply call my page .html instead of .php?

[Rightz]

I've got an html page with php within it. I personally prefer pages to be called something.html

so.... I changed the .php pages to .html and it works fine - is there any reason I shouldn't be doing this?

Thanks

[wsmeyer]

At some point someone setup your server to send .html files through the PHP processor.

Doing this sends all .html files through the processor - whether they have any code in them or not. If your site has a large number of .html files that don't have any PHP code in them you will have adding unnecessary load to the server.

William.