Calling a Php script file from html file

jayan

I have a HTML page index.html. I have some hyper-links on this page. I want to call another .php file which has some code in it. Please note that there is no output in this called .php page. I want to add 1 to a counter file and come back to my index.html. Of course doing this in php is very easy if the filename was index.php. But for some reason, I want to keep the name to index.html.

How can this be done ???

Best Regards.

gauss

Hi,
if you are using Apache you could use Server Side Includes (SSI). In this case you would have to rename the file to index.shtml and could insert this line in index.shtml:

The $QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED is only needed if you want the php file to get variables given over the URL (i.e. www.your-site.com/index.shtml?foo=bar, you would have the variable $foo in php too)

Hope it helps,
Gauss

Anon

Sorry for the late answer...I found this question when I was looking for something else...

If your site runs on a apache server you could put a .htaccess file which contains the following code in the directory with your index.html:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

all .html files in this directory (and his subdirectories) will get parsed by php...

hope this helps

Bert

Anon

Have on in your .html file:

<a href="http://<myserver_address>/link.php?url=www.phpbuilder.com"> PHP Builder </a>

<a href="http://<myserver_address>/link.php?url=www.internet.com/sections/linux.html"> Linux & Open Source </a>

Then in the links.php have

<?php

header("Location: http://" . $url);

and if you don't want em to see you linking to a php file just put some javascript in to change the status text.