In what situations would it be beneficial to use a .htaccess file to handle PHP scripts in HTML files?

When you want to run PHP scripts within HTML files without changing the file extension to .php, you can use a .htaccess file to handle the PHP scripts. This can be beneficial when you want to maintain cleaner URLs or when you have existing HTML files that you want to add dynamic content to using PHP. ```apache AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .html ```