Browser do not understand php?

Kurda Yon

Sorry for the stupid question. I created *.html file with the
following contents.

<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>

Then I tried to read this file by Netscape and only what I could see
was white background. Can you tell me why? I use Linux Suse. Do I need
to instal something to be able read mentioned *html file?
Thank you.

Jul 17 '05 #1

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Garp

"Kurda Yon" <ku******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f8**************************@posting.google.c om...

Sorry for the stupid question. I created *.html file with the
following contents.

<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>

Then I tried to read this file by Netscape and only what I could see
was white background. Can you tell me why? I use Linux Suse. Do I need
to instal something to be able read mentioned *html file?
Thank you.

PHP won't execute for a .html file, since Apache won't know to pass the file
to PHP for parsing, so it comes back as empty (counts as an unsupported tag
as far as the browser is concerned). But hey, this could be the tip of the
iceberg.

Where did you put the file? Is Apache (or something else) running? On port
80? What happens if you connect via telnet? Did you spell the page right?
Did View Source in the browser show anything? Does the title you put in
('Example') appear in Nutscrape's title bar? Are there any responses in the
/var/log/httpd/* files?

Garp

Jul 17 '05 #2

Allodoxaphobia

On 19 May 2004 11:31:04 -0700, Kurda Yon hath writ:

Sorry for the stupid question. I created *.html file with the
following contents.

<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>

Then I tried to read this file by Netscape and only what I could see
was white background. Can you tell me why? I use Linux Suse. Do I need
to instal something to be able read mentioned *html file?
Thank you.

"...I tried to read this file by Netscape ..." ??
Do you mean:
file://path/to/your/Example.php

If so, then Netscape will do what it's told: It will display the file.
You need to ask a PHP-enabled _server_ to serve up (and processs) this
file to see the HTML and PHP-generated text:

http://url/for/the/Example.php

Anyway, it should _not_ be a "*.html" file as you stated. It should
be a xxx.php file, so that the server is prepared to invoke the PHP
interpreter when it encounters the "<?php ...." entries.
If you use xxx.html, or are making the request of a web server that
is _not_ PHP-enabled, your "<?php ...." entries will be treated as
HTML comments, and _nothing_ of that section of the file will be
sent down to your browser.

HTH
Jonesy
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Jul 17 '05 #3

Default User

Kurda Yon wrote:

Sorry for the stupid question. I created *.html file with the
following contents.

<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>

Then I tried to read this file by Netscape and only what I could see
was white background. Can you tell me why? I use Linux Suse. Do I need
to instal something to be able read mentioned *html file?
Thank you.

PHP is a server-side technology, your browser has little to do with it.
Where did you create this file? If on your computer at home, do you have
a server running that can execute PHP? If on a web site, does your ISP
provide PHP? Does it require a special extension? Many only parse pages
that have a .php, .php3, .php4 or similar extension, although that is
configurable.

I think you need to retrench and read up on PHP. It is not another form
of javascript.

Go here:

http://php.net

Brian Rodenborn

Jul 17 '05 #4

Martin Geisler

ku******@yahoo.com (Kurda Yon) writes:

Sorry for the stupid question. I created *.html file with the
following contents.

<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>

You have to do the following to use see the effects of PHP in a
browser:

1) Install the file on a webserver. If the file is placed on the
local filesystem, and you access directly with your browser, then
nothing special will happen --- the browser will read the PHP code
as it is. It is the webserver job (with the help of PHP) to
translate the code into something, typically HTML.

2) Name the file so that your webserver will understand that this is a
PHP script and that it will have to run the script through PHP
before sending it back to the browser. The typical extension would
be '.php'.

Since you're using Linux I assume you will be using Apache as well
(an excellent combination). You'll have to make sure that your
httpd.conf contains the following directive:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

My configuration file is stored as /etc/apache/httpd.conf, but your
might be stored elsewere, or you might be able to use a
configuration tool from within SuSE. Or perhaps it will just work
when you give your scritp the '.php' extension.

--
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Jul 17 '05 #5

Kurda Yon

OK. Thank you very much. Now I understand what was my problem:
1. The file was placed on the local file system.
2. Apache (or something else) is not running.
3. File was named *.html (not *.php)
Now I will change all this thinks and try again.

Jul 17 '05 #6

wandaring

I made an .htaccess file and uploaded it to my server
with the lines

AddType application/x-httpd-php .wml
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm

that way my php scripts work with the .wml, html and htm files... i'm
planning to add another 2 lines later, but i've yet to observe that these
below work

AddType application/x-httpd-php .xhtml
AddType application/x-httpd-php .xml

HOW I DID IT ---
1. open notepad and type those lines above
2. name it htaccess.txt
3. upload to the server directory where you want php to operate... if you
have the following folder hierarchy, dir1/dir2/dir3/etc if you upload to
dir2, just upload ONCE to the folder where you want php to start operating,
and php will work with all succeeding folders.
4. rename the file to .htaccess don't forget the period before htaccess

my server has apache

so you really don't need the tags to be phtml or php

I DID THIS BECAUSE I don't want people to know i'm using php.

also i also have a problem with php i couldn't figure out... its the one
with the heading "help me please i need a magic word / function" can you
guys read that and answer back? thanks

"Kurda Yon" <ku******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f8**************************@posting.google.c om...

Sorry for the stupid question. I created *.html file with the
following contents.

<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
?>
</body>
</html>

Then I tried to read this file by Netscape and only what I could see
was white background. Can you tell me why? I use Linux Suse. Do I need
to instal something to be able read mentioned *html file?
Thank you.

Jul 17 '05 #7

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