Re: A basic question

In your server configuration file (httpd.conf for apache) you specify which extensions are parsed by the php module. It is perfectly acceptable for you to specify .html in addition to .php as a parsed extension. "Oil Pine" <oil.pine@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1133117217.4438.27.camel@host.yoons.org... > Hi, > > I am new to php scripting and would like to ask you a basic question. > > Could you kindly explain to me why "time.php" works but "time.html" does > not? > > pine > > > > time.php > ------------------------------------------------------ > <?php > > $serverdate = date("l, d F Y h:i a"); > print ("$serverdate"); > print (" &nbsp; <p>"); > > ?> > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > time.html > --------------------------------------------------------------- > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > <html> > > <head> > <title>Local Time</title> > <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Text Editor"> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > </head> > <body> > <p>This is a test.</p> > <?php > $serverdate = date("l, d F Y h:i a"); > print ("$serverdate"); > print (" &nbsp; <br>"); > ?> > <p></p><p>This is the end.</p> > </body> > </html> > -------------------------------------------------------------------