cannt echo when i put the php in a html file

maemike

i wam beginner of php.
i wrote a file x.php
<?
$hello="Hello!";
echo $hello;
?>

and i make a html file x.htm.
<html>
<title>first</title>
<body>
<script src="x.php"></script>
</body>
</html>

the files are in same dictory.

but it show nothing when i open x.htm.

can you help me?thanks!

mike

osusano

maybe what u want to say is like this

<html> 
<title>first</title> 
<body> 
<? include("x.php"); ?>
</body> 
</html>

maybl8r03

I think the key may be in your extensions.

The first example you cited using x.php and the second example cited x.htm

If you've configured your web server by default, htm(L) files are deemed as static files and hence no parsers go thru it.

You can embed html tags in a php file with no problem so x.php should be something like:

<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo "Cool Site"; ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "Content goes here";
?>
</body>
</html>

Hope this helps.

maybl8r03

Looking closer at the second example (sorry I'm drunk) - you tried to use the <script> tag - the script tag will work for client side scripts - not server side script. However as an interesting twist you can use php to auto generate scripts for you! This is useful when you have some arrays that you want to generate in DOM.

example generatejavascript.php

<?php

$arValues = array(
   "small"   =>   1,
   "medium" =>  5,
   "big"         => 10
);

echo "var arLookup = new Object;";
while (list($strKey, $strValue) = @each($arValues))
{
   echo "arLookup[{$strKey}] = '{$strValue}';";
}
?>

and in your html page you would say

<html>
<body>
<script src="http://foo.bar.com/generatejavascript.php"></script>
</body>
</html>

This is not a good idea if the data changes often because remember that browsers tend to cache scripts!