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Izarf · 05-28-2009, 09:31 AM

Is it possible to somehow have php code in .html-files?

If I rename the index.html to index.php or index.phtml, it says syntax error, where there is html code, since it expects php code.

if I rename it back to index.html, I cannot get the php code running. I find this weird! how do I mix php and html while having html as default language?

index.html

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

indienick · 05-28-2009, 10:10 AM

Could you please post the exact error you see in your browser when you try to rename "index.html" to "index.php"?

You should not be getting an error if you have PHP and HTML in the same PHP file; I do it all the time as I would rather break from a <?php ... ?> section than stay in it and use a whole whack of "echo()"s.

Example:

Code:

<html>
<title>Page title</title>
<head> Something...</head>
<body>
   <?php
      for ($i = 0; $i < 100; ++$i) { echo("$i "); }
   ?>
</body>
</html>

It could be your HTTP server isn't configured properly. When there are nice tools available, I will use Apache, otherwise it is lighttpd all the way; it is much easier to get up and running, and tweak.

EDIT: Okay, when I tested your index.html file (as index.php) it didn't run, but I didn't get an error. I finally got it to work when I removed the "<?xml ... ?>" section.