[RESOLVED] .php vs .htm

Dawg

I read in a few threads that I searched for that if you are using a .htm page that the server will not parse and execute the php code that you may have embedded.

We are hosted on a unix machine and apache is used.

I created 2 files. The first:
http://www.sailinganarchy.com/test1.php
The code:

<body bgcolor="#c0c0c0" text="#000000">
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" width="151">
<tr>
<td>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#003399"><b>Vendee
Record: 93d</b></font></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="/fringe/2004/images/vendee_map.gif" width="130" height="79"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" color="#CC0000">
<?php echo Round((mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 7, 2004) - time())/86400); ?>
Days left to Start</font></div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

The second file: http://www.sailinganarchy.com/test.htm
The Code:

<Script Language = "PHP">
function TimeLeft()
{
$Days = Round((mktime(0, 0, 0, 11, 7, 2004) - time())/86400)
}
</Script>

</head>

</td>

</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

Obviously the .php renders the days left until the start of the race. Is there no way of keeping the .htm extension and using the PHP code too??

Thanks in advance

Dave

weekender

yeah you can change which files get parsed in httpd.conf or possibly using .htaccess

Dawg

If I cannot convince the hosting company to make the changes then I am SOL.

I don't own the site, just do some work for them. The site is not a movable site. It has a working forum with quite a n international community, just over 3 years old. We just installed a new forum that is written in php and mysql. So I hope they will go for it.

thanks

weekender

if you can change it in htaccess then you dont need the hosting company to make any changes

Dawg

OK, I'm not really sure where that is or how to do it.

Point me in the right direction Please

SuperCam

.htaccess is a file, go to google and search for something like "PHP PArsing with .htaccess". Create a file name ".htaccess" nad put whatever you find in it.

Dawg

FileName
.htaccess
(in the file)
Code:
RemoveHandler .html .htm
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm .html

Uploaded to the web root for our site and no success. Time to relax and figure