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kash · 02-24-2011, 09:22 AM

I have a html page (with '.html' extension). Can I insert a php code to it? If I do, does the page have to be saved as '.php'?

johneva · 02-24-2011, 10:13 AM

You can use PHP yes, but you will have to change your server settings to parse .html files as PHP or change your files to have the extension .php

aokiji1 · 02-24-2011, 01:35 PM

yes of course but you have to edit your settings on server.

hilhilginger · 02-24-2011, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by johneva

You can use PHP yes, but you will have to change your server settings to parse .html files as PHP or change your files to have the extension .php

But make sure your hosting provider's server supports PHP scripts. Otherwise it is not possible even if you change the setting.you can try it check with a simple php page. test.php

PHP Code:


			
<html>



<head>

<title>Example #1 TDavid's Very First PHP Script ever!</title>

</head>

<? print(Date("1 F d, Y")); ?>



<body>

</body>

</html>

kash · 02-25-2011, 02:43 PM

thanks for your replies.

I have uploaded the test php file, and it shows the date.

Does this mean I dont really need to do anything else, like edit server settings or something?

Webby Dev Rob · 02-25-2011, 04:05 PM

Yes you can, you could have a .abc123 edtension for the page. Simply use mod_rewrite to rewrite yourfile.php to yourfile.html - where the original file is .php:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/(.*).html /$1.php [R]

Webby Dev Rob · 02-25-2011, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kash

thanks for your replies.

I have uploaded the test php file, and it shows the date.

Does this mean I dont really need to do anything else, like edit server settings or something?

Nope, PHP is working if you can see the date

YOu can see all PHP settings if you make a PHP file called say test.php with the following contents:

PHP Code:


			
phpinfo();

Upload test.php to your hosting and then go to www.yoursite.com/test.php

johneva · 02-28-2011, 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Webby Dev Rob

Nope, PHP is working if you can see the date

YOu can see all PHP settings if you make a PHP file called say test.php with the following contents:

PHP Code:


			
phpinfo();

Upload test.php to your hosting and then go to www.yoursite.com/test.php

But his first question was can he run PHP on a HTML extension.

You have only tested the server has php installed and is working. For him to be able to run PHP in a html extension he will need to do as instructed above.

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ap2010 · 03-03-2011, 07:33 AM

You can configure your webserver to let the php engine process the ".html" files, but not many people would do that. You're better if you keep php code restricted to ".php" files.

If you want to do this for seo purposes, then it is possible for you to achieve this effect via URL rewriting. With URL rewriting, you can tell your server to serve "foo.php" when a browser requests "foo.html", or even "bar.html". You need to research URL rewriting.