Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.php
Subject: Re: why php echo does not show up in HTML?
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 20:26:08 +0200
Lines: 53
Message-ID: <b09pm1FmrntU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <78f2c263-051b-4b12-b2fc-049aeae3fdd6@z8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <af70263f-b09f-49cd-b3e3-95b4c04fe39f@z10g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net iFryuWWA12DdUs0VWviVjAUmeoLP8g8OC/nH9e6tPT33HnCyD2
Cancel-Lock: sha1:8YYfSXWsDWY9VKCtVAv1PNq9A/c=
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130408 Thunderbird/17.0.5
In-Reply-To: <af70263f-b09f-49cd-b3e3-95b4c04fe39f@z10g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:9608

On 24/05/13 11:06, steve nospam wrote:

> I found the problem.
>
> I needed to modify the .htaccess file. added this line
>
> AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm
>
> Now it works. php works from inside htm file. No need to change file
> extension.

No, you didn't solve anything at all, you just managed to break your 
site to not work properly.

When you add that line, all the pages ending with ".htm" will be sent 
trough the PHP parser and the majority of your pages will not include 
PHP which means you do something unnecessary by sending them to the PHP 
engine which has to read the whole file and do nothing more.

The fix is rename the files to .php and remove the line from your 
htaccess file. If pages which before been called whatever.htm will 
suddenly be whatever.php, then use Rewrite rules to redirect the user to 
the new page.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^whatever.htm$         whatever.php

Now your site will work at the majority of web hosting companies as you 
have your PHP in .php files and RewriteRule is in most cases allowed.


Note: When people say you can use PHP in HTML, they ain't talking about 
the file extension, but that you can mix plain HTML with PHP code, for 
example:

--- example.php ---
<html>
  <head>
   <title>example file with mixed php and html</title>
  </head>
  <body>
   <h1><?php echo "this is an example"; ?></h1>
   <?php echo "this code is quite stupid, but shows how you can make a 
badly coded site"; ?>
  </body>
</html>
--- eof ---

-- 

  //Aho