Don,
Why don't you just rename your .html file
to .php and use 'include' to call an external
php script.
-brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Mebberson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 4:47 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP scripts in HTML
>
>
> Hi Don,
>
> This wont work as PHP is a server side scripting language. So by the time
> your page gets displayed in a browser, php has already packed up and gone
> home. It has done it's job and exited your page.
>
> For your webserver to recognise php it must be incompessed in
> <?php ?> tags,
> or <? ?>. This is so your webserver knows when to start up php (so to
> speak).
>
> Inserting the <script...> statement like you did is to late,
> because all of
> the information has already be passed to the browser and php
> can't write any
> more information to the page.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> "Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > I would like to know if there is a way to accomplish the following:
> > In my HTML file, I have the following:
> >
> > <script language="php" src="/phpscript/testscript.php"></script>
> >
> > In the testscript.php file, I have:
> >
> > <?PHP
> > echo "Hello Don";
> > echo "What is up?";
> > ?>
> >
> > When I run the html file, I do not see the PHP code but if I place the
> > above code directly in my HTML file, it displays.
> >
> >
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