Re: Beginner question

On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 23:16 -0600, mike bode wrote: > I am trying to use PHP on my web site I am developing now. I have installed > Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.2. My problem is that I can execute PHP code embedded > in my HTML code, but I can't execute the same cose when I put it into a > separate .php file that i then call from within the html code. for example: > > I have a html file with > > <body> > <?php > echo "Printing with php"; > ?> > <?body> > > and it works fine. > > When I take out the php code and put it inot a file pp.php, and I call that > file with my browser ("localhost/pp.php"), it works, too. > > But when I change the html code to: > > <body> > <script type="text/javascript" src="pp.php"></script> > </body> > > I get a blank page. this is probably something really stupid, but I have > been wrecking my head for days now, and I can't figure it out. anybody has > an idea? > > Yes, this is not how you use PHP! PHP isn't embedded in HTML, it's actually the other way round. You should make the main page a .php page and from there you can include the necessary HTML parts like so: <?php include "includes/header.html"; // body code here include "includes/footer.html"; ?> Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk