[PigeonHead]

I have a web page made in html. I also have a couple of php scripts that I want to put into the html page in certain places. Whenever I copy them in in Frontpage or Dreamweaver, it displays the php as txt and doesn't display what the php is coded to do.

How do I put a php script into my html page and get it to work?

[the_mole001]

Hello There,

First things first, have you put the "<?php" and "?>" tags at the start and end of the code respectively? The other thing is, even though you may be classing it as a html page with php, however it is read as a php page with html, so you have to save the page as a .php extension. Hopefully your code will now work.

[PigeonHead]

But what about the way the editors display it as text? Is that just because it hasn't been saved as php?

And, how do I get it to display as the first page when you go on my site (just like index.html)? I get an error when I just put index.php

[bugalyzer]

Some editors will display the text (you should refer to it as your source PHP code) or the output of it (if you have an emulator built into it)... You really need to get use to viewing your PHP source code and understand in your head how it displays..

To get an index.php page to serve up instead of an index.html page - just remove the index.html page. If this doesn't work then you need to configure your webserver to use index.php as an index page.

http://buildacom.com

[Patiek]

WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editors are tricky because they do not place the text that you paste into your page as that text but rather an html representation of that text.

Therefore a code like:

Code:

<php 
echo "Hello World!";
?>

Ends up really becoming:

Code:

&lt;php <br>
echo &quot;Hello World!&quot;;<br>
?&gt;

Unforunately, the above will not print hello world as expected . In order to make the editor strict, (and I am referring to dreamweaver), you have to right-click where you want the code to be inserted, click insert HTML.... and replace what pops up (<>) with the PHP code that you have (Make sure it has <? and ?> tags to begin and end it).

Then press enter and the box will disappear and it will look like you haven't done anything. However, if you open up the page in a text editor or view the code in dreamweaver, you will see that your PHP is in fact there.

[homocidal rabbi]

Well I am actually setting up a website at the moment that is running php in the background but uses html for everything else. All that was required was to save the files as shtml files instead. As long as you have everything put in right this should work, it did for me anyway.