PHP into a Table on a HTML file

SilverBear

This is beyond my megar skills as one that has had no formal training on the programming with PHP. I've Gotten everything set up on my Web Page, but for the index page (Why I didn't start there I don't know) and the Very Last thing I need to do is to Take the same information that I have in one of my PHP files and drop it into a table on my index.html page and I'll be finished, but every time that I try for that one I get a bunch of GobbelDeGook in the Table that I'm putting it into.
I suppose that GobbelDeGook is not really the way to phrase that, but such is life. I get the PHP into the Table, but it shows the PHP Script Line for line minus the PHP table. I'm probably missing something just simple, but I'm through banging my head against the wall (It's starting to bleed). Could someone tell me what little point I'm missing?

jsim

Not sure I'm get you right but...
Maybe you forgot to name your index page as "index.php" not "index.html"?

feldon23

Ok, you have several choices.

You can:

index.php

<html>
<body>
blah blah
<table>
<?php TABLE CONTENTS GENERATED BY PHP ?>
</table>
</body>
</html>

and then point people to index.php.

Or you can do templates:

template.html

<html>
<body>
blah blah
<table>
%%tablecontents%%
</table>
</body>
</html>

index.php

<?php
$file=file('template.html');
$file = str_replace('%%tablecontents%%', $whatgoesinthetable, $file);
echo $file;
?>

Or you could change your apache settings with an .htaccess file so that all HTML files are run through the PHP parser. Of course if you have just a few HTML files with PHP, then this slows things down significantly for no reason.