Display PHP in a .html file?

May seem like a stupid question but:

I want to display an RSS feed on my website. I know that my host provides .htacess and supports php. But when I paste a php code into an html file it just turns up with garbage when I put it online ?

Help MUCH appreciated

 

PHP needs to be executed by the PHP program installed on the server. HTML code is just read, interpreted, and displayed. (I'm simplifying things a little.)

Therefore you can put HTML code inside a PHP file, however you cannot put PHP code inside an HTML file. As you noticed the PHP code will not execute because the server thinks it is a plain old HTML file.

Without looking at exactly what you are doing you might be able to rename your HTML file with a .php extension instead of the html extension, put the PHP code inside it and be okay.

 

add this line to your .htaccess file:

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

 

That will work too, but it will also cause all html files to be executed by PHP even if they don't have any PHP code in them. It would create unnecessary processing time.

 

ah thanks for help dudes