: If you have "pretty" URLs (e.g. "http://www.example.com/profile/charly-sheen"), you don't want to have the extension, because it will reduce the weight of the other keywords in the URL (in this

@Annie201

If you have "pretty" URLs (e.g. "http://www.example.com/profile/charly-sheen"), you don't want to have the extension, because it will reduce the weight of the other keywords in the URL (in this case: "profile", "charly" and "sheen"). If there were a ".php" in the end, "php" would most likely take some weight away from the other keywords.
So yeah, you want to make your URLs as short as possible and remove everything word that you don't expect users to search for.

If you don't have "pretty" URLs (e.g. "http://www.example.com/profile.php?id=12345"), the .php doesn't matter, because your URL is crap anyway, both from a SEO as well as a user experience perspective.

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