PHP in HTML

thatshanekid

Hello again.
Well im having yet another problem, although i don't understand what is wrong (Like usual)

Im trying to place this:

<?php session_start(); ?>    

<?php if (isset($_SESSION['user'])){ ?>
<?php echo "Welcome ".$_SESSION['user']; ?>

Inside of a HTML document.
The HTML document just has <html></html> tags, with all the homepage text.
And im trying to make a Login thing. I copied this from a PHP page, which had HTML inside of it. I know how to do HTML inside of PHP but not vis versa.

O and it just doesn't display anything. It is supposed to say "Welcome [Username]" On the Homepage, but it doesn't.
It does on the login.php page, that say i am logged in, but when i try on the homepage with the script above it just doesn't do anything.

Thanks again.

EDIT:
I have the <?php - ?> on every line cause i have already tried the
<?php
blah
?>
And it just did the same.

dagon

unless you specificly tell the server to pass the .html page as php, it wont. If you view the source you will see your php. You can either change the file name to .php or tell the server to pass this, or may be all, files as php files.

for the latter, add to .htaccess

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

there are a few variations on this depending on your particular setup.

Ashley_Sheridan

The example code you gave isn't complete, as it's missing a closing brace. This isn't obvious because of the strange way you're breaking in and out of PHP. I'd suggest re-writing it like this:

<?php
session_start(); 
if (isset($_SESSION['user']))
{
    echo "Welcome ".$_SESSION['user'];
}
?>