Re: PHP4/Apache: .php files OK, <?php fails (fwd)

In article <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101070303520.10348-100000@uglysoftware.com>, terry@uglysoftware.com (The Big Ugly) wrote: > That is, if I write a little PHP script and put it in a file with > extension .php, and load that into my browser, then it runs just like it > should. > > If I have an HTML file with some of what I'll call "inline" PHP, using the > <?php ?> construct, the server & browser completely ignore it. I can view > the page source and see the PHP code; it is just getting ignored as if it > were an unknown HTML tag. If a page contains PHP to be parsed, then it's a PHP file regardless of whether there is also HTML outside of the <?php ?> markers. The PHP parser parses what's sent to it. Your web server is configured to send the PHP parser those files with the .php extension, but is not configured to do likewise with files ending in ".htm". So you have two choices: reconfigure the web server so that ".htm" files are sent for parsing too, or rename that file to end in ".php". I'd recommend the latter. That is, after all, the point of giving it a different extension in the first place. -- CC