Newbie question; Need help inserting php in html

I am having a hard time trying to insert a simple image browsing php script in an html page.
Can somebody point me in the right direction.

The script works when I link to it directly (/album/index.php)
but I want this to work within a table in html, so i tried renaming the photo page to photos.shtml and inserting the php script as a server side include, then I get [an error occurred while processing this directive]

I don't even know if this is possible.

Any ideas?

 

You can't have a php file in a html file, you will need to use a php include or something like that, and rename your html file to a php file. You can't execute php code in a html file.

 

That said, on a .php file you can also put in html, that will work. But not the other way arround

 

Where is your html file hosted , is that server supports the php itself ?

Are you using following type of directive in your html ?

<!--#include file="path.html" -->

 

You can try 2 different approaches:

1) Use an IFRAME to insert the PHP script in the html file.

2) Modify your .htaccess file and add this line

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

If this works on your Server, your html file will be parsed as a php file
and can include any php command, such as include.

Hope this helps.

Kuldeep

 

Thank you everyone for pointing me in the right direction;

with the information provided it is now up to me to get to work and get this page running;

I appreciate your support


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you can make your php files to parse in html files by changing the .htaccess as below

AuthName www.example.com
AuthUserFile /home/play/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/play/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

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

HTML: