My php code is not recognised in .html documents. I have seen in the manual a mention of a setting. Firstly is there a setting and if so what is it so that I can inform my webhost, who to date has ignored the problem.
probably the problem is the suffix on the filename. Your server probably wont parse files ending in .htm or .hmtl or whatever. Just rename the files with .php or .php3 or whatever is needed. The HTML will still be displayed.
With apache, add .html on the end of the AddType for php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php .php3 .html will work nicely