Re: Newbie needs recommendation for fast learning a little php.

On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 21:36:05 -0000 (UTC), [email protected] (Pierre
Jelenc) wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>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?
>
>You don't need to control the server itself; many hosts --indeed all the 
>good ones, I say-- allow you to redirect .html to the PHP engine one way 
>or another, typically from .htaccess with AddType and AddHandler 
>directives. Check your host's help system or file a support ticket, they 
>probably have a FAQ answer ready.

I have apparently gotten the server to process PHP scripts inside the
HTML file. Things is, that's kind of wasteful and may slow things
down, for me and for others. I did read on one of the many Web pages
I've been looking at over this topic that besides putting "AddType
application/x-httpd-php .html" into my .htaccess file, and making ALL
HTML files get processed for any PHP scripts, that there was also a
way to do it for a single file. I have about five files I need to do
this modification notice for.

The code for a single file that I saw was "<Files yourpage.html>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html </Files>" where yourpage.html
was whatever that one file was named.

Does anyone know if it's possible to use that declaration, or
something like it, in the .htaccess file so that only the five HTML
files that really need to have PHP processed will get processed and
all other HTML files will not be?