How Do I Include/Exe PHP in a '.shtml' file???

[Anon]

I'm running IIS5.0 and PHP4 the latest release. I created a hit counter in php. I'd like to know how I could execute this php hit counter from my html web pages. I'd like to execute it as if it was a CGI script using SSIs. Is there anyway to execute a php script from inside an html document? If so, how?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Andrew_Creoe
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[Anon]

Just do this:
<script language="javascript" src=".php?"></script>

[Anon]

Hi Andrew,

just a thought of mine:

You seem to be capable of writing PHP code, your server is capable of processing it. So why don´t you create a .PHP file???
PHP is an embedded scripting language, this means you can place it everywhere in your HTML. When the PHP-Parser finds a php-tag it produces the output and inserts it into your already prewritten HTML.

So don´t worry about SHTML or dirty workarounds.

Your counter call could look like this:
[Your HTML]
<P>Hi, you are visitor number <?php (your counter code here!) ?> on our website....
[Your HTML again]

The only thing to keep in mind is to rename the page then into something like mypage.php or .php3 (depends on your server settings).

Why make it harder than it is??!!

Regards
FAB

[Anon]

I am doing that but i want it to parse the script in a file with the extension .htm. I dont want to chage the file name. Can you tell me how to reconfigure the server to do that?