HTML in PHP

robbchar

Hiya,

I'm just learning PHP and in the course of coding I was trying to write out a break tag in one of my scripts. The problem is that it seems PHP is interpereting the '<' as the end of the PHP block, which ends up printing all my code and ignoring the script. A very simple example is this:

Changing the print statement to this:

print "<" . "br" . ">";

doesnt do anything to help. Changing it to:

print "&lt" . "br" . "&gt";

makes the browser interperate the whole thing as text. If I make that file and name it .php it works fine, but naming it .html is when it screws it up. I thought that I should be able to just insert php into html files and it would work fine. I have seen code that outputs html, I was thinking that was what PHP did by default, so my assumption is that something in my config file is bad.

thanks for any help

robb

knickerlas

Hi
Theres nothing wrong with the first bit of your code. The other bit's are a bit wild but most will also work.'
The problem lies in the way the server interprets files. It will only recognize .php or possily .php4/3 unless you specify otherwise.
The workings of changing this are a little beyond my meagre ablilities (though there's no reason to anyway) but is you post a question or read uå on the manual I'm sure you can work it out.

Nick

kurdtis

Nick is correct.

If you are using Apache you need to add the line:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

to your httpd.conf file in order for PHP to work within files having a .html extension

robbchar

That makes a lot of sense, thank a lot.

robb