PHP in the DIV TAG?

JaredJRitchey

Hello;
I've searched phpbuilder.com and could not find my answer. Is it possible to put include or include once in a DIV tag in an html file?

I have a mortgage amortization PHP/Script that I want to fit into a pre-designed HTML file. It's using the DIV tag in the HTML file for layout.

Example: I placed to following code in a Div Tag in my page.

<?php  include("include/mortgagecalc.php"); ?>

I even tried to cut-N-paste the all the code from "mortgagecalc.php" and place it into the "calc.html" in place of an existing paragraph of text in the code editor in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX. Just prints my code to the web page. I need the script to be identified by the server and then ran.

Ideas would be greatly appreciated;
Jared

laserlight

Is it possible to put include or include once in a DIV tag in an html file?

You can use include or include once at any place in any file, the question is whether that file will be interpreted by the webserver as containing PHP code.

JaredJRitchey

Thanks Laserlight;

What would be the best way to insure this happens. The script runs fine by itself.
www.jaredsdesigns.com/alpha/tabs/mortgagecalc.php

but when I put it into one of the tabbed pages! FAILS!

www.jaredsdesigns.com/alpha/tabs/calc.html

Jared

laserlight

Most likely files with a .html extension are not parsed by PHP on your webserver.

JaredJRitchey

I never thought of that:rolleyes:

So I created test.htm

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Testing Page</title>
</head>

<body>
<?PHP include("mortgagecalc.php"); ?>

</body>
</html>

No luck with that either.

Thanks sincerely for your help thus far.
Jared

laserlight

Cant you just rename it calc.php in that case?

JaredJRitchey

laserlight;

I thought more about what you said and created this generic page called "test.htm"

I placed in the same directory as calc.html and in the default directory;
Both failed; I't must be someting to do with parsing by the server.

<html>
<head>
<title>Testing Page</title>
</head>

</html>

changed above "test.htm" to "test.php" and it worked! Puzzled;
I'm sending a trouble ticket to the domain admin to see can be done.

Jared;

JaredJRitchey

Parsing PHP in .htm/.html files (Div Tags as well)

Note from my ISP reads as follows;

To have the servers parse PHP code in your .html and .htm pages you will need to modify the .htaccess file in your public_html folder adding the following lines:

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

This can be accomplished by modifying the public_html/.htaccess file manually or this can also be done via the MIME Types icon in your Control Panel.

Login to your Control Panel
Click on the MIME Types icon
In the "MIME Type" field type or paste this:

application/x-httpd-php

In the "Extension(s)" field type the extension
you wish to have parse PHP code (ex: .html)
Click the Add button

You should now see "application/x-httpd-php .html" listed under "User defined MIME types". If you wish to add other extensions repeat the process above for each extension.

For those who may be experiencing similar problems.
Also thanks to LaserLight for your help.
Jared