Re: Calling PHP from an HTML page

> By 'web tree' I mean somewhere on the machine with PHP under the 'web server > document root' In Apache on unix it's usually /home/httpd/html or /www/htdocs > and on Windows I think it's C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\htdocs or > something like that. Imagine that you set ctTracker to log to a file > /www/htdocs/dadssitereport.txt. You could then view the file in a browser with > the link http://your.domain/dadssitereport.txt --- Hi, David! You've been absolutely great in helping out. Thanks! I even understand what you wrote above. I hope you don't mind if I also post your reply to the mail list since your wisdom will help others, I'm sure. > This would only work if you had set up Apache to parse .htm extensions through > PHP. (AddType application/x-php .php .php3 .htm ) Normally, you wouldn't want > to do this because straight html files get spit directly out, whereas php > files need to be parsed by php, which in turn generates the html to spit out, > adding another layer of processing to the mix. > > If you save the above file as test.php, however, it would work. > > Sounds like you've got a lot of learning to do...but don't get > discouraged....I've only been doing this since January or so and I've done all > kinds of crazy things! --- Dave, again, you've been a life-saver! I shot your AddType suggestion to my host server so that they can set me up. I'm so thoroughly impressed with these guys that I know that they'll set me up right away. Please pardon a blatant plug for www.hostway.com. www.hostway.com is the most professional service I've ever had the pleasure to work with. They're out of Chicago, IL, USA and respond within the half-hour even on a lazy Sunday evening. For only $25 bucks a month, I have more bandwidth and disk space than I'll EVER use and get PHP and MySQL with a few other neat features like RealAudio in the bargain. Their online manual and "control panel" for registered users is great. If anyone signs up or switches to them, please tell 'em www.murphatnight.com sent you so that I get some sort of credit. ANYWAY... Does any of this help my daddy who won't switch to Hostway.com because he's too set in his ways, the bastard? Probably not. He still wants to advertise his neat site on other people's sites and when they click on the link that he gives them, he want to know that "ID #[something] sent ya!" My dear father doesn't have PHP but I do. Can't he call a PHP script on my server like he could a CGI script uploaded to a CGI-friendly site that would set a cookie on the visitor that would follow him all over his own site? Did that even make sense? Yours, Murph