Re: Newbie Question

On Jan 1, 2011, at 8:37 PM, Adolfo Olivera wrote: > Sorry, here is the code. The .php extension is a requirement? Can't it b embedded on a > .html file? > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> > <title>Untitled Document</title> > > </head> > <body> > <?php > $a = "hello"; > $hello ="Hello Everyone"; > echo $a; > echo $hello; > ?> > </body> > </html> > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Joshua Kehn <josh.kehn@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 1, 2011, at 7:50 PM, David Robley wrote: > > > > And normally would need to be saved as a .php file so the contents will be > > handled by php. > > > > > > Cheers > > -- > > David Robley > > > > A fool and his money are my two favourite people. > > Today is Boomtime, the 2nd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3177. > > Save the code as hello.php. Copy it to your root web directory (should be the base directory or > something called public_html / www when you FTP in) and access it from youdomain.com/hello.php > > Regards, > > -Josh > ____________________________________ > Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com > http://joshuakehn.com > Yes it _can_ be embedded alongside HTML code, but it must have the .php extension otherwise it won't be picked up as a PHP file. You could add a ..htaccess rule to change the processing directive (essentially make every HTML file a PHP file) but that would be wasteful if you ever serve straight HTML. Regards, -Josh ____________________________________ Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com