Includes Help

GFXTutorials

I need some includes help. They are not working.

Here is the code I am using:

header.php

<img src='http://i.imgur.com/mfHTz.png' />
		<ul>
           	   	<li><a href="home.html">Home</a></li>
               	<li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
                <li><a href="services.html">Services</a></li>

        </ul>

index.html

<html>
<head>
	<?php include("Widerangefollow/transparentblue/header.php"); ?>
</head>
</html>

Why isn't it working?

GFXTutorials

My bad. I accidentally posted "Widerangefollow/transparentblue/header.php"

It's actually "header.php"

Derokorian

That would create invalid HTML mark-up. img, ul,li,a,p,etc are all elements that belong in the BODY of the html document. ALSO index.html means this document is being served as HTML not PHP therefore the PHP engine is not parsing the document, and looking for the PHP tags (<?php ...?>)

GFXTutorials

Derokorian;10992891 wrote:
That would create invalid HTML mark-up. img, ul,li,a,p,etc are all elements that belong in the BODY of the html document. ALSO index.html means this document is being served as HTML not PHP therefore the PHP engine is not parsing the document, and looking for the PHP tags (<?php ...?>)

So.. if I changed it to index.php, would it detect HTML?

bradgrafelman

What is "it" and what do you mean by "detect HTML" ?

Bonesnap

GFXTutorials;10992892 wrote:
So.. if I changed it to index.php, would it detect HTML?

Simply put, only a .php file can include another .php file. Since it's a .html file it cannot do that.

Any file that you want to use the <?php ?> tags must be a .php file.

bradgrafelman

Bonesnap;10992918 wrote:
Simply put, only a .php file can include another .php file.

Not necessarily. You can configure any extension you like (including .html) to be passed to the PHP interpreter.

However, in the most common case, yes, you're right - it's probably only .php files that are being parsed for PHP code by the webserver.

GFXTutorials

Thanks, it worked. I renamed it index.php..