Include file PHP: Help

[Anon]

Hi all,

I am working on a conference website. I want to have a separate navigation file and include this file in all the other pages, so if changes need to be made on the navigation menu, I only need to update one page instead of every page.

I tried the following using PHP, but neither is working. Please help.

1. In the file, about.html, I cut the navigation menu code, insert the following line: <?php include('navig.html'); ?>, and paste the navigation code into a file and name it "navig.html".

2. I also tried
   <?php
   $filename="navig.html";
   $fd = fopen ($filename, "rb", 0);
   $contents = fread($fd, filesize($filename));
   fclose($fd);
   echo $contents;
   }?>

For both times, there is no navigation menu on the page, and when I look at the source code for about.html, the
PHP section is gone.

I would appreciate any comment or suggestion. Thank you very much!

Catherine

[Anon]

if you want your php code to be executed, you have to name your files .php

a file about.html will be handed over to the client as it is.
a file about.php will be parsed first.