Make a php script show on a .html page?

1jetsam · #1 05-08-2004, 04:44 PM

I know one way, which does not seem to work for me which is a java include, but I know other people have done this with php and java so..

I was wondering how to make it work, so that someone without php support can still use a php script from another site (an include?).

Thanks for the help!

t c · #2 05-08-2004, 06:36 PM

I think what you are looking for is SSI (Serverside Includes).

The proper way to do this is supplying the path and not absolute url. However, you could probably get away with supplying the absolute url.

Code:

Correct:
<!--#include virtual="/path/to/file.ext"-->

Incorrect (might work still though):
<!--#include virtual="http://www.domain.com/path/file.ext"-->

1jetsam · #3 05-08-2004, 06:49 PM

For example, maybe?:

Code:

<!--#include virtual="myfile.php"-->

Would that work?

t c · #4 05-08-2004, 06:56 PM

Yes it would but, if your host doesn't support php then it will not display the php output and will display source only.

1jetsam · #5 05-08-2004, 07:32 PM

Ok, thats why it doesn't work on my computer, because I don't have php installed (it doesn't want to, it has feelings.)

Nope, didn't work. I have a php server, but it isn't working... let me try on another server.

1jetsam · #6 05-08-2004, 07:47 PM

...and it doesn't work on the second server.

The php script itself is working, just not the .html page with the php results. it shows nothing on that page.
Here: http://www.cyberosis.com/forum/counter.html (and /count.php)
http://www.hostultra.com/~1jetsam/counter.html (and /count.php)

source:
counter.html

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
	<title>Counter</title>
</head>

<body>

<!--#include virtual="count.txt"-->

</body>
</html>

count.php

Code:

<?php
$fp = fopen("counterlog.txt", "r");
$count = fread($fp, 1024);
fclose($fp);
$count = $count + 1;
echo "Site Views: " . $count . "";
$fp = fopen("counterlog.txt", "w");
fwrite($fp, $count);
fclose($fp);
?>

t c · #7 05-08-2004, 09:27 PM

The reason why it's not working is because you cannot run php period and only way to display counter results via a php script is if you have php on there.

On your 'counter.html' you have count.txt and you should have 'count.php'. Of course it's not going to work though.

Barti1987 · #8 05-08-2004, 09:37 PM

hay tc..

i tried a very easy script..

conter.php

PHP Code:


			
<?



echo 'aziz';

?>

and the htm file was:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<!--#include virtual="counter.php" -->

</body>
</html>

it didnt work??

are you sure of it..

i never knew u can include php in html??

Barti1987 · #9 05-08-2004, 09:38 PM

i tried it with html, htm

i also trued the include as file(instead of virtual), didnt work

t c · #10 05-08-2004, 09:48 PM

Perhaps you may want to try changing 'virtual to 'file'

Code:

<!--#include file="counter.php" -->

Also this is not using php in html. This is using server-side includes in html.

Oh yeah and I forgot to mention, you need to make sure the file that will have the include function on it needs to be an either '.shtm' or '.shtml' extension.

Barti1987 · #11 05-08-2004, 09:54 PM

I already did try the file part.. it didnt work...

What do u mean by .shtml or .shtm...

so do this

 ?

mr_wuss · #12 05-08-2004, 10:00 PM

it means that apache will not look for includes unless the extension .shtml is there
unless you over ride that with a .htaccess file.
.shtml serverside parse / .html = pure output

Barti1987 · #13 05-08-2004, 10:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mr_wuss
it means that apache will not look for includes unless the extension .shtml is there
unless you over ride that with a .htaccess file.
.shtml serverside parse / .html = pure output

Strange..

I made an .htaccess file with that line... still is not working?!