php in html page

SteveS · 13 Oct 2009 at 20:13

Hey,

I have html pages and want to just insert some php includes to tidy things up.

in MS expression web (i know some of you will hate this! lol) if i try add some php into the .html it says i have entered one or more php blocks and need to change the page format to .php

It also seems i have to add a htaccess to get it to parse the .html though the .php engine to get it to read the blocks..

So basically i dont know what's best? The page is mainly simple html so i thought best to keep it as one.. but if best practice would be to make the page a .php then i will?

Advice/opinions?

steve-h · 13 Oct 2009 at 20:22

make it .php

Tripnologist · 13 Oct 2009 at 20:58

steve-h said:
make it .php

SteveS · 13 Oct 2009 at 20:59

lol. ok. so best just make the page php then... I think im correct in saying it doesnt change html formatting/coding at all?

fishfishfish · 13 Oct 2009 at 21:34

lol. ok. so best just make the page php then... I think im correct in saying it doesnt change html formatting/coding at all?

Correct. The .php extension simply means that your webserver will interpret the code as PHP. It will render any HTML it finds and run any PHP allowing it to dynamically alter the page as you define in your code.