.htaccess; no extension required

Question

I need some .htaccess code that will treat extensionless files as PHP files.

Suppose the visitors visits www.mywebsite.com/dir1/dir2/file.name, it will

Answer 1

Ok, the answer was a combination of answers. I needed to add Options +MultiViews in my Apache configuration. Then I extend Andrews answer to the following:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

Regards and many thanks! Kevin