can php be used in .htm extension page

snowbirdpc

I would llike to have a short mysql lookup in the home page. I am using FrontPage 2002. However when I change the file extension from .htm to .php I lose all the frontpage bindings. I lose the theam and the structure. When I leave the .htm the php does not do its thing.

So is there a way I can have my php and .htm too?

Ryan_Sanders

Nope.

michalopek100

sure it is
your file can have any extension you want....
for example : your_file.sth
then you have to make .php file, let's call it index.php
with this code:
<? include (path to your file)?>
example if in the same dir
<? include (your_file.sth)?>
Now you main file is index.php but you have your_file.sth with any extension you want...
Hope it helps

coditoergosum

A better way to do it would be to set your webserver to actually parse .htm docs for php. You can only do this if you have access to the server config files (I think it can be done with .htaccess too, but I'm not sure). It's easy to do with apache if you have access to the httpd.conf file... if not, I'm not sure what else you can do.

Of course, the best solution would be to ditch FrontPage (Ick), and write your own code... or even get a good wysiwyg editor (dreamweaver). :p 😉

Elizabeth

Originally posted by michalopek100
<? include (path to your file)?>
example if in the same dir
<? include (your_file.sth)?>
Now you main file is index.php but you have your_file.sth with any extension you want...

Does this actually parse the php code, though? My understanding was that an "include" only includes the file verbatim and the code wouldn't show up... only the HTML code would.
Am I wrong?
(Hopefully, I am wrong, as this might solve some of my configuration problems- yay! 😃 )

-Elizabeth

coditoergosum

Does this actually parse the php code, though? My understanding was that an "include" only includes the file verbatim and the code wouldn't show up... only the HTML code would.

Yes, the code will get parsed. Files that are included by PHP, get parsed by PHP... as long as they have delimiters around the code to be parsed. So, michalopek100's code will actually work, since the php code in the .htm files will have <?php ?> around it.

On a lot of my webpages I use what I call a code library file, and I include it on all of the files in the site with one line of code, rather than throwing in the entire file. This is especially handy with sites that use sessions, or mysql stuff where you have a bunch of lines of code that you use over and over.

Elizabeth

Thanks, coditoergosum! 🙂

So the only caveat is that you have to have a php file as the originator... but if I have a static .htm file that is referenced numerous times throughout the site, this method wouldn't help me much- I guess I'd be better off doing a simple redirect to a plain ol' php file, eh?

-Elizabeth

snowbirdpc

I found a wonderful answer right here in phpBuilder.

FrontPage creates a file called .htaccess this file can be used for many things. security, etc...

One is how to parse certain files. Add this line to the end of the .htaccess file in your main directory.

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

The information I found was here: http://www.phpbuilder.com/tips/item.php?id=79

Make sure that you first back up the .htaccess file just incase.

You can now keep your file named *.htm and still have it parse the php code.

One more thing.

To keep the php code in FrontPage from getting all screwed up, re-aranged, etc.. add this before and after your php code.

<%
<?
place php code here
?>
%>

It will trick FrontPage into thinking you have asp code and leave everything formatted as is.