Let's say I just want to use PHP include to grab HTML from another file. can I just put in that little PHP script and name my .html file (index.html) to index.php and it'll work? I thought I'd have to add my server password an other info in PHP to use it.. What do I do?
No you can't just insert PHP into HTML and expect it to work.
PHP is a server side language that generates the HTML that's sent to the client's web browser. The files usually have the extension ".php" rather than ".html" but simply renaming "html" as "php" won't work.
You need to have a PHP parser installed on your server and reconfigure your whole site.
You might be thinking of JavaScript which can be inserted into HTML and is run client side.
Exactly as you said:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test PHP file</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo 'test';
//all your php code can go in here
?>
</body>
</html>
You can have multiple <?php ?> blocks in your file.
This will all work if your server is configured to parse HTML with the PHP interpreter.
I made an Apache handler including
application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm
Then yes. You would be correct. I suggest doing this with an Apache .htaccess or a hosting panel.
If your server is configured to parse php files, then yes, adding <?php include('somefile.html'); ?> should work fine.
no you don't need server password to run php... just rename the file to .php and insert your php code inside <?php ?>
PHP and HTML
test.php
<?php
define('title','foo');
?>
<!doctype HTML>
<html>
<head>
<title><?=foo?></title>
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>
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I am new to PHP and am trying to run my first script. I read that to to run php on your pc, you have run a server on it which I didn't feel like doing.
So instead I am trying to run it on a server hosted by Ipage.com
The program is just a basic html file with a set of full tags
I have tried linking windows explorer using ftp, using the "upload" button on the website and directly editing the file using the editer on the site. When ever I add the php tags and save or upload the file, when I go to view it on the ipage file manager, they are commented out
This is what happens to the file when I upload it
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<title>Striations</title>
<head>
<link href="css/LandingPageStyle.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<!--?php echo "HELLO"; ?--> //originally <?php echo "HELLO"; ?>
<h2>Our site is currently under construction, please check back later!</h2>
<img src="media/construction man.png"></img>
</body>
</html>
I'm totally new to php and hosting and stuff and I could be missing some important step regarding how to run php
I'd appreciate and explanation of how php is transferred into html before being sent to the browser
EDIT:: I know as a fact that ipage supports php, they had mentioned something about changing my root file directory, but even when I moved my files to where they said, it did the same thing
Is there something else I should be doing to enable php?
It is an html file with php tags... I'm supposed to save it as .html, right?
If you saved this as index.html then the PHP parser won't run it by default. Either name it index.php or (if you can) use htaccess to parse HTML files as PHP
I'm running Mac OS X 10.10 and I'm having a problem running PHP on my Localhost here. It works fine when I load a PHP file directly in the browser (using HTTP localhost):
<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?>
But it doesn't work when I embed the same PHP within HTML:
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?>
</body>
</html>
Any ideas? Do I maybe have something configured wrong? Is there something I should check in my apache/php setup files?
Thank you for any help!
In order for the file to be parsed by PHP, your file needs to have a .php extension.
In this case, instead of file.html it should be called file.php
The html will render without any parsing, while your php code will parse without a problem.
You need to continue to load your PHP over HTTP, from a server that has PHP installed and configured, using a file that the server will parse for PHP (which usually means having a .php file extension).
so I'm basically brand new to web based stuff. My university has given me a cPanel hosted server. I need to implement some basic php functions for my main web page.
This is what my cpanel looks like if it helps:
So in my index.html file I have:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Current Date/Time</title>
</head>
<body>
<h3>
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
echo date("l");
echo "Hello World!";
?>
</h3>
</body>
</html>
But none of the php echo stuff is displaying. I'm not sure if my server actually knows what to do with an html file with php in it.
My instructors have told me: the php file needs to be deployed to public_html folder using the file manager in CPanel.
But i'm not really sure what needs to go into the .php file and how to get my .html file to utilize it.
Thanks for your patience.
Your file name needs to be .php. If the web server is set up with PHP (which I'm going to assume it is) then it will handle the php file fine.
Rename the index.html for now and by default the index.php will be the first page to load.
The file you are using is index.html. This means that it can only display static text and that's the reason why your PHP code is not working.
All you have to do is change the extension from .html to .php then your PHP code should work.
Although I would suggest you Google a few Intro. to HTML and PHP tutorials to get you going on the basics
The file's extension needs to be changed from *.html to *.php or the PHP won't execute, it'll just be treated like raw HTML.
Here's a quick very basic step-by-step of what's happening:
The client requests index.php
Your web server recognizes the *.php extension and tells PHP to interpret it
PHP parses the text looking for PHP code, and evaluates that code, then replaces the PHP code with the output of that PHP code (if any)
For example:
$strVar = 'world';
echo '<span class="contentText">hello ' . $strVar . '</span><br />';
is replaced with that code's output:
<span class="contentText">hello world</span><br />
The resulting HTML is then returned to the client as content to be rendered by the client's web browser
The client's web browser parses the HTML and renders a web page
I am trying to run PHP in HTML page.
I saved this file in WAMP as a .html
<html>
<body>
<?php echo "My first PHP script!";?>
</body>
</html>
But when I open it with the browser and I do inspect element the result is this:
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<!--?php
echo "My first PHP script!";
?-->
</body>
</html>
If Apache is not running .html pages as php scripts then running a .html page won't run as .php
Solution: Rename your filename from something.html to something.php
or alternatively something.phtml although this is uncommon
You can also save the page as .phtml. This format is possible of displaying .php & .html.
Take a look here for more information: What is phtml, and when should I use a .phtml extension rather than .php?
You should save it as .php instead of .html
You need to put it into a .php file, the webserver (if not configured so) won't interpret .html files as PHP.
Like others said, by changing file extension from .html to .php would work. However, if you don't want to do that, you may want to check this out. It allows you to execute php file without change file extension.
I am a newbie and have never used PHP before. I want to execute PHP script from an HTML file on Linux. What do I need to do?
This is the content of my HTML file:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Testing Weather Data</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<div id="weather">
<p>Weather Information
<?php include "/home/tahoang/Desktop/weatherData.php"; ?>
</div>
</BODY>
</HTML>
What output do you receive? Does it just show the PHP code?
I assume that's the case.
For a test, change the extension on the file to .php and run it again. Does it work now?
If so, you will need to associate PHP with .html and .htm files on your server.
EDIT
This is the line you want to add to your Apache config:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
You can embed the php code right into HTML using <?php ?> tag and putting your php code between opening and closing tags.
Before that you need to add this handler in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file to run php scripts inside .html file:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
You either run pass the file path as an argument to the php command line program, or you configure a web server to execute the page as PHP (the specifics of which depend on the web server you use) then visit the URL of the page.
Here is the step by step process to include php code in html file ( Tested )
If PHP is working there is only one step left to use PHP scripts in files with *.html or *.htm extensions as well. The magic word is ".htaccess". Please see the Wikipedia definition of .htaccess to learn more about it. According to Wikipedia it is "a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration."
You can probably use such a .htaccess configuration file for your purpose. In our case you want the webserver to parse HTML files like PHP files.
First, create a blank text file and name it ".htaccess". You might ask yourself why the file name starts with a dot. On Unix-like systems this means it is a dot-file is a hidden file.
(Note: If your operating system does not allow file names starting with a dot just name the file "xyz.htaccess" temporarily. As soon as you have uploaded it to your webserver in a later step you can rename the file online to ".htaccess")
Next, open the file with a simple text editor like the "Editor" in MS Windows. Paste the following line into the file:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm
If this does not work, please remove the line above from your file and paste this alternative line into it, for PHP5:
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm
Now upload the .htaccess file to the root directory of your webserver. Make sure that the name of the file is ".htaccess". Your webserver should now parse *.htm and *.html files like PHP files.
You can try if it works by creating a HTML-File like the following. Name it "php-in-html-test.htm", paste the following code into it and upload it to the root directory of your webserver:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Use PHP in HTML files</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<h1>
<?php echo "It works!"; ?>
</h1>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Try to open the file in your browser by typing in: http://www.your-domain.com/php-in-html-test.htm (once again, please replace your-domain.com by your own domain...)
If your browser shows the phrase "It works!" everything works fine and you can use PHP in .*html and *.htm files from now on. However, if not, please try to use the alternative line in the .htaccess file as we showed above. If is still does not work please contact your hosting provider.
I am surprised no-one has mentioned a way to hack it - if you don't want to hassle of changing the Apache config here is how you do it:
In your .html file you simply make use out of iframes
<iframe name="myPHPScript" src="myScript.php" width="100%" frameborder="0"></iframe>
This will simply just display what ever is displayed as if you went directly to www.mysite.com/myScript.php
So for example we could have
<?php
echo 'Hello World!';
?>