simple PHP question

Hi

I know this is simple, but i just don't find the way ..

in my page.php i have the folowing

<?php
$message = "hello world";
include 'template.html';
?>

and in my template.html i have the folowing

<h1>$message</h1>


so .. now i expect when i call page.php, i should see "hello world", but instead i see "$message" in my browser .. why is this ? how do i fix it ?

Thanks

 

Rename 'template.html' to 'template.php'.

 

You must print the variable.

Try this

<h1><?=$message?></h1>

 

Besides, your template.php should look like

<h1><?php echo $message ?></h1>

Code (markup):

 

When including files if you have php inside that file you MUST have the .php extension on the included page. And as ^^ you can always escape from php and wirte html then carry on.

You could just use:

echo "<h1>$message</h1>";

PHP:

Glen