Embedded php in htm

steelheadwook

Hi,

I'm just getting started with PHP. I'm trying to embedd some PHP code in a .htm file (info.htm). When I view the .htm file, the php code doesn't work. The contents of my info.htm is as follows:

info.htm

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

If I save this file as info.php, it works.

I have PHP Version 4.3.2 running with Apache 2.0 on a CentOS (RH9) server.

Is there a setting in Apache that makes the PHP engine parse my html or do all files with PHP code need to have a .php extension?

Any help would be appreciated.

badgoat

From my understanding, naming a file with the HTML extension forgoes the php you may have embedded. By naming the file with the PHP extension, you are telling the page to look got instruction from the PHP engine based on the code you have on the page. So, with the HTM file, it does not know to echo the phpinfo.php which you have embedded within the html.

laserlight

Is there a setting in Apache that makes the PHP engine parse my html or do all files with PHP code need to have a .php extension?

Yes.

There is likely a line in httpd.conf like:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Simply add .htm to the list:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm

Of course, now this means that all files with a .htm extension will be parsed for PHP, thus incurring something of an overhead, however slight.

steelheadwook

Originally posted by laserlight
Simply add .htm to the list:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .htm

Thanks laserlight. I added the .htm and my php embedded codes works!