including php into static html pages

double-f

i have a static html page, with the .html extension, and the server is SSI enabled. can i do an:
 ?
i get an [error processing this directive]
i have plenty of pages in html, so converting every single into php + navigation is a pain.

Anon

You either have to change your pages to PHP so that the PHP parsing engine knows which pages to run through OR set it up in your apache to parse HTML pages through your PHP parser. And that virtual line will need to be changed to the PHP "include()" statement instead.

Anon

I was looking for the same thing as you are for ages until i figured this out.
If anyone can see any problems with this then get in touch.

This is possible. You have to include the PHP page the same way as you would include a JavaScript File.

e.g.
In your HTML page put:

The browser now thinks its including a JavaScript File.

Now output all of the PHP results in <yourphpfile.php> as:

document.write("variables can go in here");

below is an example of what yourphpfile.php would look like:

$array = array("first", "second" , "third", "fourth", "fifth", "sixth");

for ($i=0; $i < count($array); $i++)
{
?>
document.write("<br><FONT FACE='ARIAL' SIZE='2'><?=$array[$i]?></FONT>");
<?

}

any feedback would be good.
Cheers

Anon

How do you set up apache to parse .html if you are not using your own server, and don't have access to the MIME types in the /apache/config/ files, and also do not have access to MIME types via server control panel? .htaccess? details?