Re: Newbie needs recommendation for fast learning a little php.
Arno Welzel <[email protected]> Thu, 1 Jul 2021 12:35:29 +0200
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.php,alt.comp.lang.php,alt.php |
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[email protected]: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 22:23:32 +0200, "J.O. Aho" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On 30/06/2021 19.49, [email protected] wrote: >>> On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:24:38 +0200, "J.O. Aho" <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 30/06/2021 14.08, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> This does what I want, but only as a .PHP file. How do I get it into a >>>>> file named foo.html so I can have foo.html declare when it was last >>>>> modified? >>>>> >>>>> <?php >>>>> $file = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]; >>>>> $break = Explode('/', $file); >>>>> $pfile = $break[count($break) - 1]; >>>>> //echo $pfile; >>>>> echo "This file was last modified on: " .date("Y-m-d >>>>> H:m",filemtime($pfile)); >>>>> ?> >>>>> >>>>> I feel as if I'm almost there. >>>> >>>> I won't comment on the code as Arno already done that, there is two >>>> options, I would say one option is not up to you, so in reality you have >>>> only one option (the last one) >>>> >>>> 1. Make the webserver to send .html files to tne php engine as it does >>>> with the .php files. >>>> >>>> 2. Rename the .html file to .php >>> >>> Uh oh. But I'm reading that I can embed php into a html file. Isn't >>> that possible? >> >> The issue is that the web server will not treat each file it handles as >> a php code, it will only look for files that ends with php, send those >> to a PHP-engine which parses the file and executes the php code and then >> hands back the output to the web server which then sends the output to >> the end user (the visitor to your web page). >> >> It's possible to allow .html/.htm files the same way, but then you need >> the administration rights of the server, as you are using a shared >> service, it means you don't have administrator privileges and those you >> can't do the change. > > Thanks for clarifying that. I don't control the server, but I've read > that those who do can allow html files to be scanned for php code. > Maybe my Web host has in fact done that. Would I be able to find some > notation about that in the Web host's phpinfo.php file? > > Also, some scripts seem to work in html files and some don't. > > The following is the entire code for a file I named hello_1.html > > <html> > <head> > <title>PHP Test</title> > </head> > <body> > <?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?> > </body> > </html> > > It produced the result: > > "Hello World > > '; ?> " > > in the browser. It's obviously got a little problem in the output, but > it did produce a mostly useful output. No. The output comes from the fact, that PHP was *not* interpreted. The browser displays *exactly* this: <?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?> Just have a look at the source of the page which is displayed by the browser. Since <?php will treated by the browser as the beginning of a tag, it will be omitted in the visible output. But "; ?>" is clearly left over as the PHP code was *not* interpreted but just sent to the browser. The result is then what you see. If renaming everything from .html to .php you should look for a hosting service which allows using .html with PHP as well. Technically this is just a configuration in the webserver - however that is usually not possible in shared hosting environments. -- Arno Welzel https://arnowelzel.de