Extension Issues

thekidrio

I am trying do drop a pieces of code for a random text display into my files. I can get it working just fine with .php extension however if i put the text into a file with an extension of .htm or .html it is not parsed as php code. Alternativly if i change the working php file to an extension of either one of those (.htm or .html) it is not parsed as php code.

I know this is a newb question and ti kills me that i cant figure this one out haha

thanks in advance

j. michelin
<<EDIT>>
Ok, I think i figured this out, do i need to tell apache that .html and .htm files need to be process as php?
i.e.
AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html

and will this mess up things across the board if i do add this to my conf file?
<<EDIT>>

bpat1434

It can screw up your HTML code. I'd be weary of adding those types. Might mess up something you don't want messed up. I'd stick with the PHP extensions. Or if you want, create your own extension like: .kidrio or something...

~Brett

cahva

Yeah. Good example of that is if php has shortags and normal xhtml page starts with this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">

So what you think would happen with those pages? PHP spits an error thats what 🙂. The only way the error would be avoided is to disable shortags or echo the first line with php.

thekidrio

It was really just me being hopeful for a lazy solution. Thanks a lot for the fast responses!