I want to use some php to make simple header/footer files for my webpages. I'm just getting started in web design and I am using Coffee Cup HTML Editor.
Problem is I have this line in my index.php file:
?php include(“includes/header.html”);?>
and nothing shows up even though my header.html file has a menu in it.
Do I need to install something on my machine before PHP code will show anything?
Syntax errors
Firstly, your code snippet contains a syntax error. The opening PHP tag should be <?php and not ?php. So your code should look like this:
<?php include('includes/header.html');?>
Install PHP
Secondly, you need to run PHP scripts on a PHP server like XAMPP for the code to actually be executed.
This assumes header.html either contains text or if it is PHP it echo()s its output.
Related
Can anyone tell here, what is the command to run html with php script. Normally in my linux terminal, if i want to run html, my command is
firefox <filename>.html
It works fine and display output in firefox browser. But some how, when I add php script, the browser doesn't show the output from php script. It show source code. I try the answer from the forum below, it doesn't work for me.
Using .htaccess to make all .html pages to run as .php files?
How to run a php script inside a html file?
So here, i want to ask
1) What is the step to run html with php script
2) what is the command to run?
3) The source code, need to save in .html or .php ?
Is there any way to run php in browser without using apache?
Rename file.html to file.php and check.
I think you write PHP and HTML in a single document, and you use only html extension.
You can't run php codes without install PHP package on your OS. your browser can't understand your php code without this package, So your browser show source code.
After that you can run php file as a page or put it into a html page by iframe html tag.
When I put some PHP code in example.html, my PHP code does not show up in my browser (I use chrome).
In Chrome's dev tool the PHP tag
<?php include 'switch.php' ?>
becomes
<?-- include 'switch.php' -->
I want to know why this happens. That the PHP code gets commented out instead of getting processed.
I have Windows 7 with xampp.
Change page format from .html to .php . Then you can include php files !
Javascript and iframes are working too in php files IF they are not between <?php ?>
I'm a frontend developer and I'm facing with a problem.
Whenever I'm building a website, I'm using PHP to include the template files, so I get a redundant code.
But when I want to generate this file into an HTML file I open up the PHP file in the browser to copy/paste the code to an HTML file.
How can I make this process to be way much faster, or how could I avoid to do these things manually? Maybe there is a program to do this or something?
You can use a recursive wget.
Say your webserver runs on your localhost, you can run:
wget -r -k localhost
Be careful: wgetdoes not perform a search on which pages are available, it simply looks at links (the <a> tags) and will capture these as well. As long as everything is reachable from the index page (not necessarily on the index page), it will be downloaded.
wget is a linux program, but I guess there is a Windows application with the same name/options as well... As #rkbvkleef points out, it's part of the MinGW package.
Basically your php file (which runs on server, could be local server) contains or generates your HTML code to present on browser. You can simply write HTML code out of tags in a php file and it will work. Or if you want to generate some HTML based on some conditions you are checking inside php or using some variables in php then you can use echo function. It will display whatever string you echo on your webpage.
<?php
$name = "Murtaza";
echo("<h1>Hello ".$name."</h1>");
?>
I create a new HTML file for my project using Dreamweaver and i added a simple php code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<?php
echo "My first PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>
so far nothing is appearing while i open the file with google chrome and IE, any thoughts?
PHP has to be executed on the server. Upload it to a web server that supports PHP, or install your own web server locally such as WAMP. You then need to access the file with a URL rather than just opening it. A local URL will look like http://localhost/ or http://127.0.0.1/.
Your file also needs to have the extension .php if it contains PHP code. If you really want to use PHP inside a .html file, your web server will need to be set up specially to handle this.
PHP requires a webserver and an interpreter. Browsers cannot handle PHP on its own.
Look at XAMPP
A good idea to check if your php file is working properly is to load phpinfo function.
This function will show details about your PHP installation:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
If what you see on the screen is this php code with the entire opening and closing tags (), then you are not running the page with PHP.
So I've created a php webpage with a head section that links to some bootstrap css files and my custom css file. This webpage also has a foot division that links to the necessary jQuery and bootstrap JavaScript files. That's all fine and dandy: I know it works because when I launch this .php in firefox, I can see that Bootstrap has taken control and stylized the text. The problem occurs when I try to break this webpage up into components...
I've created a separate head.html and foot.html which include the same content as before they were broken up, and on the .php page I use the following include statements:
<?php include '../components/head.html'; ?>
<?php include '../components/foot.html'; ?>
Now when I launch the php from my browser, the links clearly haven't worked because the text is not styled. Upon choosing to "view source" of the .php, I see that it has not included the markup from head.html or foot.html, and instead I still see the literal <?php include '';> statements. What have I done wrong? I know the relative filepaths are correct, so perhaps it has something to do with the fact I'm trying to launch the php page locally? Perhaps the components should be .php instead of .html? I really don't know.
Additional info: Win7, tried using notepad++ because Dreamweaver keeps giving me FTP errors every time I ask to "preview in browser"
First you should have a webserver installed along with PHP. You may use xampp or wampp. If you simply open a php file in your browser then it will not execute the PHP statements instead will display the code as it is.
Except for not having a web server along with PHP installed in your system you have done nothing wrong as I see.
The head.html and foot.html can be html files and not .php files that would not be an issue till the file containing the include statment is .php file.