Because your trying to put PHP directives in an html file. Your web server does not know to parse html files as php files unless you tell it to do so.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alexander Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP] Re: including a php file in an html doc > > > I still seem to be missing something. I guess the easiest thing for me to > do is just show you my code. All I want is to be able to reference the > $hotspots array from any .html page oon my site. I thought I > could include > hotspot.php and then reference the array using <?= ?> syntax. > What should I > do? The one requirement is that I cannot make all my pages PHP. They must > be html. > > HTML PAGE (test.html): > <html> > <head> > <title>Untitled Document</title> > <? include("hotspot.php"); ?> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> > </head> > > <body> > <?=$hotspots['kitten']?> > </body> > </html> > > PHP PAGE (hotspot.php): > <? > include_once("../board/db_fns.php"); > > echo "hotspot = ".$hotspots; > > if (!isset $hotspots){ > $connect = connect_to_db(); > $query = "SELECT * FROM hotspots"; > $result = mysql_query($query); > $count = mysql_numrows($result); > > $hotspots = array(); > for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++) > { > $hotspot = mysql_fetch_assoc($result); > $hotspots[$hotspot['hotspot']]=$hotspot['val']; > } > print_r($hotspots); > } > ?> > > > "Bogdan Stancescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi Alexander! > > > > You're missing the distinction between a server-side script (PHP) and a > > client-side script (JavaScript, VB etc). When you use the syntax you > > used, the browser attempts to download the src and execute it - and it > > can't do that, because in the best case the php code runs on the server > > and returns "test" (your echo()) and then it "tries" to run that as php > > code, which again it doesn't know how. It does work for JavaScript > > however, because it downloads the JavaScript file (which is plain text) > > and then executes the code (because it knows how to execute JavaScript). > > > > What you should do would be write > > <? include("hotspot.php"); ?> > > instead of "<script language... etc". > > > > Bogdan > > > > Alexander Ross wrote: > > > I have a .php file whose purpose, ultimately, is to set one variable; > > > $hotspot. Now I want to include that var in a bunch of places in my > html > > > page (it must remain html). So this was my thought. In the <head> > include > > > the following: > > > > > > <script language="php" src="hotspot.php"></script> > > > > > > and then anywhere in the html doc I want to print the value > of $hotspot > I > > > type: > > > > > > <?=$hotspot?> > > > > > > but it doesn't work. I have a feeling I cant include a php > script that > way > > > because in trying to debug the problem I made the first line of > hotspot.php > > > = echo "test"; and the word test never shows. What am I missing? > > > > > > Thnks > > > Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
