wierd problem parssing php in html

jtorral

I have been running php on my site now for several years. however, I was playing around tonight and I cant seem to get php working from within html for example:

<html>
<body>
Jorge
<?php echo "torralba"; ?>
</body>
</html>

only displays Jorge.

I tried using short tags as well.

any clues?

Bythe way, the above code is from the View Page source. which should not be displaying the php tags.

thorpe

has this file a .php extension?

jtorral

no. it is an html file.

came accross this because I wanted to place some basic code in an existing html file.

thanks

thorpe

well, php wont parse in a html file. not without special server settings anyway. you'll need to change the extension to .php.

jtorral

i thought php could be read from an html file ..

thorpe

if you configure your server (apache or iis) to parse a html file as php it can, but its not a common, or recommended approuch.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by thorpe
or recommended approuch.

Although there's no reason why not: it's perfectly acceptable (and even recommended) that you hide implementation-specific details in your URLs.