Embed PHP in HTML

tattooedpierre · - Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Glasgow

Hi,

I know this has already been discussed previously. However, the solution given (changing CGI Interpreters extensions) doesnt seem to work for me.. when i add htm as a vaild PHP extension, my site no longer loads and returns only a Error 200.

I'm simply trying to include a tiny PHP counter on my index.htm page.

The added code is simply: include("counter.php")

I have tested the server, and the problem only occurs when i modify the CGI interpreter to allow htm files to use PHP... :(

Any ideas?

PS - I do have PHP/Perl/mySQL installed etc. Before you ask :wink:
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aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

tattooedpierre,

It seems that there is a problem with the page where you've embedded the PHP code. Can you please post the page source code here for verification?
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os17fan · - Joined: 21 Mar 2003 Posts: 531 Location: USA

I know why you get the error 200 , when embeding HTML in a PHP script , you must do it a different way , you can't just type a html link and expect to get your PHP code to work

<a href="URL">link text</a>

The proper way to type html as a link in a PHP script

<a href=\"URL\">link text</a>

The thing is this , if you type it regularly , the PHP script will think its exacuting PHP varibals and their for you have to add \ to over come this , they have some PHP books at Barnes & Noble for less than $20. I got the one by Larry Ullman

Quick tip!

When your adding fonts and images , you can just do this , right after you get to the = sign for a image or any type of html , put a \ , so it will be =\

When you have the "" , just put a =\"\" , you should get what im saying right now if you know html. Here's some examples

-------------------------------------------------------------+
Image: <img src=\"your_image.jpg\">

Font color & size: <font color=\"blue\" font size=\"4\">

Background color: <body bgcolor=\"color\">
-------------------------------------------------------------+

Do you get what im saying now , its very simple.

I just started PHP programming! lol :D
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tattooedpierre · - Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Glasgow

Hey, thanks for your reply. However, I'm not trying to embed HTML into PHP, rather PHP into HTML :wink: .. not sure though if this makes a difference. In any case, here is my current code:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>:: sweetsurrender ::</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<table style="width:100%;">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<img src="/images/chinaman.gif" style="border:1px solid black;margin-bottom:10px;margin-top:10px;"/>
<img src="/images/logo.gif" alt="logo sweetsurrender" style="border:1px solid black;margin-bottom:10px;margin-top:10px;"/>
<table class="main">
<tr>
<td style="width:150px;border-right:1px solid black;" align="center" valign="top">
<table style="width:1px;margin:15px 15px 15px 15px;">
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;">
<div style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:7px;">Menu</div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin:0px 6px 10px 2px;white-space:nowrap;font-size:12px;line-height:135%;">
<img src="images/bullets/arrow_left.gif" align=left style="border:none;"/> <a href="index.htm" title="Homepage" style="font-weight:bold;">Home</a><br />
<img src="images/bullets/arrow_left.gif" align=left style="border:none;"/> <a href="aboutme.htm" title="All About Me">About Me</a><br />
<img src="images/bullets/arrow_left.gif" align=left style="border:none;"/> <a href="/gallery/" title="Online photo gallery">My Pictures</a><br />
<img src="images/bullets/arrow_left.gif" align=left style="border:none;"/> <a href="games.htm" title="Simple online games">Games</a><br />
<img src="images/bullets/arrow_left.gif" align=left style="border:none;"/> <a href="chat.htm" title="sweetsurrender chat rooms">Chat</a><br />
<img src="images/bullets/arrow_left.gif" align=left style="border:none;"/> <a href="links.htm" title="Links to other quality sites">Links</a></div>

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="border:1px solid black;" align="center">
<div style="text-align:center;font-weight:bold;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:5px;">
Guestbook<br />
<span style="font-weight:normal;">
</span>
</div>
<div style="margin:0px 5px 0px 5px;">
<form action="http://tryin2.servebeer.com/hdguestbook/" method="post">
<div>
<input type="hidden" name="ID" value="15190"/>
<div style="margin-bottom:5px;">
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Sign Me"/>
<br><br>
Visitors:
<?php

function hitcounter()

{

$AppStart='Sept 12 2002';

$hitsfile = './counter/counter.txt';

while($f==0)

{

$hits = file($hitsfile);

if($hits['0']!=0)

{

$hits = $hits['0'] + 1;

$fp = fopen($hitsfile, "w");

fwrite($fp, $hits);

return number_format($hits).' hits since

'.$AppStart;

$f=1;

}

}

}

echo hitcounter();

?>

</div>
</form>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
<td style="width:550px;vertical-align:top;">
<div style="margin:10px">
<div class='titre'>:: news</div>
<div class='texte'>Added the holiday pics.. should be getting some prints quite soon.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="border-top:1px solid black;text-align:center;font-size:10px;color:gray;">
copright (c) 2003 - sweetsurrender, http://tryin2.servebeer.com<br>
you shouldn't be reading this part. it's not interesting.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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Right, I apologise in advance if this seems sloppy at all. I must admit that it was not myself that coded the bulk of the HTML.

Any help is much appreciated.
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aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

It seems that the first line

WhiteDevil · - Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 74 Location: United Kingdom

Also im just going to assume that you have saved the file as a .php and not a .html/.htm :D
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