PHP in HTML, works fine as PHP but not as HTML

I need some assistance using a PHP include in HTML, works fine as PHP but doesn't as HTML.

What I'm trying to insert is this:

<?php include "image.php"; ?>

On my PHP test version, it works just fine, but on my HTML test version it doesn't ... the only difference is the file extension ".php" vs ".html" -- the coding is identical.

http://www.swmidirectory.org/index2.html

http://www.swmidirectory.org/index2.php

All this is intended to do is display a random image underneath "Welcome to the Award Winning Southwest Michigan Business & Tourism Directory".

My goal is to avoid using Javascripts to accomplish the loading of random images.

Thanks in advance.

 

Is the web server set up to process .html as a php file? If not then of course it will not work. If it is apache you can create a .htaccess file to tell apache to process the .html file as a php file.

From: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=186832#post186832

 

LGRComp - wouldnt we able to change this in the Control Panel like CPanel, Plesk, DA etc ?

Thanks

 

I know you can add that in cPanel. I do not know Plesk and DA as well, but I imagine you can do it in them as well.

 

This was a simple correction ... thanks to LGRComp!

Now I just need to fine tune some of the code.

 

Thanks for the compliment. Nice to know it helped.

 

it is easy to add handler in Cpanel!