Run PHP in .html file

[Anon]

I read the php3 manual and it stated that i can make apache server to process php in all html files.

does this means i can insert php in my index.html? if yes, how to do this?

[Anon]

For reasons of performance, I wouldn't set Apache to treat all html files as PHP; you'll serve static pages much faster if you don't do this. I'd suggest you tell apache to treat files ending in .php or .phtml or .php3 as PHP files, and if you want your index file to be a PHP file, set DirectoryIndex to index.php or whatever is appropriate.

No matter which way you go, though, you would insert PHP code into your file in the same way: <? starts a block of PHP code, ?> ends it.

HTH,

AC

[Anon]

Here's some quick benchmarks I threw out.

With NO PHP code in the file, and changing the extension from php3 to html, this is what I get:

byte/s rate for 1000 copies via "ab -n 1000 server/page.{html|php3}"

Size(bytes): 1k | 20k | 60k
html 880k 5.5m 15.5m
php3 309k 1.4m 2.8m

As you can see, while there is a penalty for adding PHP, it's not a real show stopper.

If you really want to add PHP interpretation to an apache server, find the line that looks like this in httpd.conf:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 .php

and add .html to the end of that line and restart apache (apachectl restart)

The better answer is to find the entry in httpd.conf that looks like this:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>

and make it look like this:

<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php3
</IfModule>

Then just make your index page be index.php3 and you're done!