Noob question about converting from static HTML to php

I have a couple static html sites that I used templates for and I want to convert them to php (for an advertising program).

Would it be as simple as just saving the file extension as .php instead of html in a file editor or would that not work? (I'm leaning towards that won't work)

In any case, if the above won't work what would you recommend? Thanks in advance.

One of the sites in question is GamingFonts.com (in my sig)

 

There is no point making a page extension to .php without having any php based content. Extension wont affect anything.

You can just include a area of code for your ads blog. Save all your ads in one php file.

Then place the following code in your existing page to call for that file. (Eg: ads.php)

<?php
include('ads.php');
?>

PHP:

Just that simple.

 

What? --> Grumps

No When You want use "include" your file must have extension: .php

Change extensions to .php, than When You want to use some php code just use:


<?

Your code


?>


Cheers

 

Hello,
Yes you can exchange the extension html to php, but remeber to redirect your old html pages to the new one with extension php. Because maybe in the search engine there are html pages...
I dont understand if you can understand me...

Best,
Jakomo

 

Or ,if you have permission, you can makethe server parse all the HTML files as PHP using .htaccess

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

Code (markup):

~
Thomas

 

Well, the two sites I'm talking about are these:

GamingFonts.com
and
NESgaming.com

I think that I might just take the content and put them into wordpress blogs and then I don't have to deal with figuring out how to do php stuff.