html and php

[sirTemplar]

a question:

is it possible to insert a php code on an html file and retaining the html extension of the file? how?

eg. home.html instead of home.php

[raymie]

Yes,

the simplest way is to tell your webserver to treat html files as php, will do not real harm and will do exactly what you want,

[sarah]

If you don't have access to your apache configuration file, just create an .htaccess file with the line below and stick it in the directory with all of your web pages.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

(I'm assuming you're using apache...)

[cahva]

I think it is better to use the .htaccess file than tell your server to parse every .htm and .html pages.

I work for a webhosting company and we put the config so that all pages were parsed by php. Well it didnt take long when we got our first call complaining that their pages didnt work.

The reason was this little bugger in the start of the page:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

You can propably figure out why their site didnt work. That will give an parse error for obvious reason. We offcourse could configure php in a way that it only parses php-code inside <?php ?> and not <? ?>, but that would mean a lot more phonecalls coming from our clients 🙂

[raymie]

quite correct, it is not ideal in most cases to make the changes on the web server as a whole.

I also use apache and only do that kind of thing for a site at a time (or a part of a site even).

My answer was non-specific because the original question did not mention what platform they are running on and I do not know if it can be done at a site level using all web servers.

[sirTemplar]

thanks guys! i love this site!🙂

[dolby]

<script language="php">
echo("Hello!");
</script>

.....will work in a html page.

[cahva]

That will only work if your pages extension is php. It wont work if its htm or html