RE: [PHP] Re: including a php file in an html doc

Yes, you need to tell your web server to parse html files for PHP directives. How you accomplish this will depend on your webserver and version. I think something along the lines of AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html should work in an .htaccess file if your using Apache. > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Ross [mailto:alexross@bleen.net] > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:13 AM > To: 'Brian V Bonini'; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: including a php file in an html doc > > > So is there any way to accomplish what I want to using php without > naming the files *.php?? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian V Bonini [mailto:b-bonini@cox.net] > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:11 AM > To: Alexander Ross; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: including a php file in an html doc > > Because your trying to put PHP directives in an html file. Your web > server > does not know to parse html files as php files unless you tell it to do > so. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alexander Ross [mailto:alexross@bleen.net] > > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:50 AM > > To: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PHP] Re: including a php file in an html doc > > > > > > I still seem to be missing something. I guess the easiest thing for > me to > > do is just show you my code. All I want is to be able to reference > the > > $hotspots array from any .html page oon my site. I thought I > > could include > > hotspot.php and then reference the array using <?= ?> syntax. > > What should I > > do? The one requirement is that I cannot make all my pages PHP. They > must > > be html. > > > > HTML PAGE (test.html): > > <html> > > <head> > > <title>Untitled Document</title> > > <? include("hotspot.php"); ?> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1"> > > </head> > > > > <body> > > <?=$hotspots['kitten']?> > > </body> > > </html> > > > > PHP PAGE (hotspot.php): > > <? > > include_once("../board/db_fns.php"); > > > > echo "hotspot = ".$hotspots; > > > > if (!isset $hotspots){ > > $connect = connect_to_db(); > > $query = "SELECT * FROM hotspots"; > > $result = mysql_query($query); > > $count = mysql_numrows($result); > > > > $hotspots = array(); > > for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++) > > { > > $hotspot = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); > > $hotspots[$hotspot['hotspot']]=$hotspot['val']; > > } > > print_r($hotspots); > > } > > ?> > > > > > > "Bogdan Stancescu" <mgv@canad.ro> wrote in message > > news:20020812033110.4941.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > > Hi Alexander! > > > > > > You're missing the distinction between a server-side script (PHP) > and a > > > client-side script (JavaScript, VB etc). When you use the syntax you > > > used, the browser attempts to download the src and execute it - and > it > > > can't do that, because in the best case the php code runs on the > server > > > and returns "test" (your echo()) and then it "tries" to run that > > > as > php > > > code, which again it doesn't know how. It does work for JavaScript > > > however, because it downloads the JavaScript file (which is plain > text) > > > and then executes the code (because it knows how to execute > JavaScript). > > > > > > What you should do would be write > > > <? include("hotspot.php"); ?> > > > instead of "<script language... etc". > > > > > > Bogdan > > > > > > Alexander Ross wrote: > > > > I have a .php file whose purpose, ultimately, is to set one > variable; > > > > $hotspot. Now I want to include that var in a bunch of places in > my > > html > > > > page (it must remain html). So this was my thought. In the > <head> > > include > > > > the following: > > > > > > > > <script language="php" > > > > src="hotspot.php"></script> > > > > > > > > and then anywhere in the html doc I want to print the value > > of $hotspot > > I > > > > type: > > > > > > > > <?=$hotspot?> > > > > > > > > but it doesn't work. I have a feeling I cant include a php > > script that > > way > > > > because in trying to debug the problem I made the first line of > > hotspot.php > > > > = echo "test"; and the word test never shows. What am I missing? > > > > > > > > Thnks > > > > Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > >