parse PHP code in fast template file

[gifkins]

Is there any way to include a few lines of PHP code in a fast template file to let PHP engine to parse them? Now they won't be parsed and is ignored. This make sense because the web server is set to parse PHP only if PHP code exists in files with specific suffix. The template files are the output of processing PHP files. So I just don't know how to let PHP engine to parse those PHP code in files with suffix 'tpl'. Help please!

[edrugtrader]

add .tpl to your conf files as a type that is handled by php.

[gifkins]

thank you for reply. Actually tpl file is not directly requested through web server, so add .tpl to web server to have enclosed php code parsed won't work. I tried this already.
Any more suggestions?

[edrugtrader]

it doesn't matter... if you are doing an include, you still need tpl to be executable by php...