[Resolved] how do php read html

eli03

Greetings,

how do php execute inside the .html page?

when i try to use this sample page, it gives me white page, the hello doesnt print. thanks

//index.html

<html>
<title>TEST</title>
<body>
<?
echo "hello";
?>
</body>
</html>

trex005

have you tried vieing the source on the output page? if so... can you paste that here too?

eli03

when i view the source code, the code still the same, i think the php is not parsed.

I already added this to httpd.conf , but still the same

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
AddHandler x-httpd-php .html

trex005

sounds like you are having "install issues" this question would be better directed to that board
http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=7

thorpe

you need to save the file with the php extension, not .html

index.php

trex005

according to those lines he put in his conf .html should be parsed as PHP and I have only done a couple of PHP instals so I am far from an exptert.... eli03 were you sure to restart apache after you changed the conf file?

eli03

im very sure, i restarted my apache after the modification

tsinka

Hi,

which OS/PHP/Apache versions do you have? Do you want to use PHP as Apache module in CGI mode ?

Thomas

iTZKooPA

I would have to agree that it sounds like something is messed up with your server. If you save the file as index.php (you have it commented as .html) then it would work if the PHP setup on the server was working correctly.

eli03

this is just a test server, im using win xp, Apache 2.0.50, php 5.0.

All my all my php code work well. I had no problem, except for this simple code.

tsinka

Hmmm ... all the other code works ?

Please double check the file ... make sure that it doesn't have the extension .txt. If folder settings are to hide the extension of known file types then the file might look like index.php. But AFAIK notepad knows about .html files and saves file correctly if you want to save them with an extension of .html.

Do you have that comment (// index.html) in the file or did you add it to your post manually. Remove it if it exists in the file.

Additionally, try to remove the AddHandler line in php.ini.

Is there a reason why you want to use the extension .html for PHP ?

Thomas

eli03

It looks good, when extension is all the same. since most of my page uses .html, and only 4 pages uses .php. This php script is just querying data into mysql db. And display it in table.

I already check the the file, no double extension. What is addhandler in php.ini?

why is not working?😕

trex005

when you parse all of your HTML pages as php, especially if most of them do no contain PHP you are greatly wasting your server recourses.... a server can spit out an order of a magnatude more HTML pages than pages parsed as PHP

eli03

ok. I will close this thread, thanks for the help. I will try to solve this by myself. thanks.

tsinka

Hi,

I was out of the house for two days ... do you still have this issue ? There was an error in my last post ... I meant AddHandler in httpd.conf ... not php.ini, sorry 🙂

I tested the following configuration on Windows and it worked without any problems.

Here are the steps required (on my system, including support for MySQL, using the zipped PHP package ... not the installer version,PHP as Apache 2 module, html files parsed as PHP code):

clean up httpd.conf => make sure that there are no configuration directives related to PHP
copy php5ts.dll to system32
copy libmysql.dll to system32
copy additional dlls from the PHP root directory (e.g. c:\php5) to system32 if you want to use PHP modules that depend on that dlls.
make sure you have a valid php.ini in your windows directory
Add a LoadModule directive to httpd.conf, e.g.

LoadModule php5_module "C:/php5/php5apache2.dll"

Add the AddType directive(s), like e.g.

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Edit php.ini:

a) Adjust the extension_dir to e.g.
extension_dir=C:\php5\ext\
b) enable the MySQL extension
extension=php_mysql.dll

Restart apache

This way it worked on my Windows server: Do not any Action or AddHandler directives for PHP. Make sure that you add the AddType directives somewhere in the global scope of httpd.conf, outside any Directory directive or something like that.

Thomas