PHP code in a *.html page ?

Davy

One of my clients want a counter to use PHP inside of a HTML page but I don't think it's possible unless his server can support PHP use inside a *.html file ?

I might have to ask him to make the changes to his server config. How can you set this on an Apache server?

I want to ask him to check this. Can you check to see you can do this? phpinfo() ?

Thanks for your time, guys 🙂

planetsim

You can simply create a .htaccess file which allows HTML to be parsed as PHP or however the way i prefer is use mod_rewrite to have .php files and just make them look like html ones

something like

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_+]+)\.html$ $1.php [NC]

Davy

I don't think that will work. I will want to 'include' the php file into the html page and I don't think it can be done usign that method without havign to constantly make changes to the .htaccess file

The guy said this to me:

I believe it can be done with the gd library.

Surely all this isn't worth it for a lousy $5??

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Davy
The guy said this to me: "I believe it can be done with the gd library."

Have an <img> tag in the HTML page that links to a script. The script (using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] to find out which page was calling it) works out an appropriate value for the counter and constructs an appropriate image, which it then outputs under an appropriate Content-Type: header.

Surely all this isn't worth it for a lousy $5??

It surely isn't. Five dollars? If I were to go to meet with a client, five dollars probably wouldn't even meet the costs of the trip.

And "hit counters" are so passé....

Davy

referencing the script through the <img> tag is what he originally suggested but I never heard of doing that before!

I did, however, have the same thoughts on how the script was gonna run btw 😛

...Just didn't know how to go about putting it in the HTML page....

Will have a go in a minute of doing that with a simple script and try doing the counter. It's an 'online' client so no travel expenses 😛 I'll just put the $5 to my web host as paypal donation for generously giving me free space with next to no limitations and no horrible domains 😃😃

Thank you Weedpacket

Davy

Ok I can get a script working easily enough it does exactly what I want it to do but I'm having a problem with referenceing the image source.

I can get it to reference a single image but if a .php file has more then one images echo'd on it then it will show as a broken link. Is there a way I can merge the digit images together?

Weedpacket

Yeah; that's where the GD functions come in: you already have a collection of images one for each digit of course; what you need to do with them is use imagecreate or imagecreatetruecolor to - ah, (Weedpacket shrugs) create a new image 🙂 - and then imagecopy() the appropriate digits into place. Then you've only got the one single image to output, which after all is what the client is expecting from its request.