Adding PHP to an existing HTML page

[vito]

I realize this has likely been asked many times, but I just can't seem to wrap my head around it.

When you have a page somepage.php, you can insert HTML into it. But it must be a .php page. What if I have a site that is already all .html but I want to insert some php into the existing pages? Seemingly I can't without renaming the pages .php. That becomes an issue for me because my sites are well indexed with search engines. If an SE has a link to an html page, but I rename it .php, a visitor clicking the SE link will not get to the page, correct?

So is there any way to add php functionality to an existing html site without renaming the pages?

Vito

[cgraz]

You would have to have your host change this. There's an article here http://www.developer.com/lang/other/article.php/912381

If you're hosting your own site, you could edit the apache configuration file to

-- Quote from above site --

For example, if you wanted to parse all html documents as php too, you would change the line to:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html.

-- end quote --

If you don't have access to that and your host won't do it, you could always make .php pages and keep the .html, but when someone goes to the .html, you do a quick redirect to the .php for that page. It all depends on how many pages you have, but that's just an idea.

Hope this helps.

[vito]

That helps. Thank you.

Vito