php include files not processed

Anon

I am running IIS 5.0 w/ Win2k and I just recently installed PHP. Everything is working fine, except for the include files.

Here is the scenario:
My main page is called index.shtml. In index.shtml I have a reference to an include file, ads.php, but when I load the page it spits out the php code and does not process it.

I think it is something with my server configuration, but I have not been able to find anything. The problem only happens locally when I go to the site through localhost.

Any suggestions?

mithril

You have to add any and all extensions, .shtml in this case to, to the list of extensions IIS (or any server) tells PHP to parse. I forget exactly how to do it in IIS, but I believe it's covered in the Win32 installation section of the manual.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php

-geoff

Anon

Thanks, but I am unable to find out any helpful information.

I tried to change the extension dir to the inetsrv folder, then I added the extension for ssinc.dll, but it did not work.

Any other help would be great!

-Will

mithril

You misinterpreted my reference to extensions (or maybe I wasn't clear enough). I was refering to file extensions (.html, .shtml, .php, etc).... not extension dll's. You need to look at the extension mapping setup on your IIS installation and make sure that the .shtml extension is recognized as a PHP enabled file. If it's not, the PHP engine will never see the included code and the code will be printed to the screen as plain text. Take a look at the Win32 Installation section of the PHP manual for more detailed information on mapping extensions to PHP in IIS.

Regarding trying to add ssinc.dll into PHP, as you said, it doesn't work. The only extensions you can load into the PHP interpreter are PHP extensions (php_*.dll). And those PHP extensions must be compiled against the same build as the interpreter. For example, you cannot load 4.0.5 extension modules into 4.0.6 and vice-versa.

HTH.

-geoff