Getting PHP to display in HTML pages

foxtrotoscar

I am very new at php, so apologies if this is basic!!!

I have a snip of php code that I insert into html pages. It should display what the php code is calling, but nothing comes up. If I change the pages from .html to .php,
then it works perfectly, but when I change back to .html it disappears again, with just the php snip showing in the html code.

I have tested a few different .htaccess files, but so far no luck.

Can anyone help me with what I am doing wrong please.

Code is below (*****s for privacy of course) ....

<?php
readfile("http://********.com/cgi-bin/***/**.cgi/fast_search?keywords=irs+tax+relief&file=irs.txt&results=16");
?>

planetsim

You will need to tell whatever server you are using to allow the html extension to be run by the PHP engine. Currently the PHP extension is allowed and HTML not.

What server are you using ? You will need from memory Administrative permissions to make this change regardless of what server you have.

foxtrotoscar

Thanks planetsim

The server is a standard Linux cPanel.

Are you saying that I need to ask the server admin to change permissions to allow the php engine to accept html?

Thanks

dagon

depending on your set up this in .htaccess should work

addhandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .html

foxtrotoscar

Thanks dagon,

I added what you suggested to the .htaccess file, and am finally getting action,
but they are errors. I have pasted the errors below and would appreciate any advice on what may be the problem.

Thanks in advance .....

Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/******/public_html/index.html on line 390

Warning: include([url]http://*****.com/cgi-bin//.cgi/fast_search?keywords=irs+tax+relief&file=irs.txt&results=16[/url]) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/***/public_html/index.html on line 390

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://*****.com/cgi-bin/**/.cgi/fast_search?keywords=irs+tax+relief&file=irs.txt&results=16' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/****/public_html/index.html on line 390

bradgrafelman

Why are you trying to include() something across HTTP? If you want to download the resulting output of an external website, you should either use [man]file_get_contents/man or look into using [man]cURL[/man] (since it sounds like file_get_contents() is blocked from opening URLs as well).