Fw: [PHP-WIN] Beginner's Teething Problems

Forwarded to list, in case others would like to add their wisdom/benefits of their experience. =dn ----- Original Message ----- From: "DL Neil" <PHPml@DandE.HomeChoice.co.uk> To: "Lindsay Gillam" <lindsay.gillam@intechnology.co.uk> Sent: 25 February 2002 13:27 Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Beginner's Teething Problems > Lindsay, > > > Thanks for your help. I was just trying to access it from the browser on my > > local machine as you suspected. I have a web server setup here but didn't > > realise you needed to upload the files for them to function correctly. I > > will give that a try now. Just out of interest from what I have read the > > best way of doing it is using .php files instead of enbedding the php in the > > middle of .html files. If I want to code a counter or guestbook anything > > like that where it would sit as a page in a webside already created. I am > > assuming you would have to enbed the code in the html?? > > > I would use .php files and 'embed' the HTML within them. Remember that the PHP > processor's task is simply to > take the HTML and PHP 'page'/file as input, and to translate the lot into a single > web page (HTML) as output - > which is then fed back to the web server for serving to the client, just as if it had been > picked up from a > .htm[l] file. > > You can use any filetype that you like - provided the server knows to handle the file's > data to the PHP > processor. If you never use 'pure HTML' files then you could specify that files with > a file type of .htm[l] be > forwarded to the PHP processor as well, but I can't recommend this course of action > because at the practical > level any page which didn't need PHP's attentions would incur an unnecessary > processing/serving delay and why > call it HTML if it is (at least in part) PHP? > > There is a quite a bit of discussion here on the list (check the archives when you're > ready) about the > advisability of keeping HTML code separated from the PHP elements, the use of template systems, > and so on - so > the topic is quite important! > > Regards, > =dn > >