PHP Include for HTML

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I have a navigational bar  an image  and a heading that I ll be including in every page of my website  so I wanted to use php include to refer to this code in several pages  However  I think I may have the syntax wrong or something because it s not rendering anything when I load it  Here are some code snippets    lt  -- sample page -- gt   lt  DOCTYPE html PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD XHTML 1 1  EN   http   www w3 org TR xhtml11 DTD xhtml11 dtd  gt    lt html gt     lt head gt     lt  php include   headings php      gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt   lt  php include   navbar php      gt   lt  php include   image php      gt    lt  body gt   lt  html gt    navbar php       lt  php       echo   lt ul id  nav  gt           lt li gt               lt a href  Home html  gt Home lt  a gt           lt  li gt           lt li gt               lt a gt About Me lt  a gt               lt ul gt                   lt li gt                       lt a href  Career html  gt Career lt  a gt                   lt  li gt                   lt li gt                       lt a href  Coding html  gt Coding lt  a gt                   lt  li gt                   lt li gt                       lt a href  Personal html  gt Personal lt  a gt                   lt  li gt               lt  ul gt           lt  li gt           lt li gt               lt a href  Travels html  gt Travel lt  a gt           lt  li gt           lt li gt               lt a href  Contact html  gt Contact lt  a gt           lt  li gt       lt  ul gt           gt    Thanks for helping

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Here is the step by step process to include php code in html file   Tested    If PHP is working there is only one step left to use PHP scripts in files with   html or   htm extensions as well  The magic word is   htaccess   Please see the Wikipedia definition of  htaccess to learn more about it  According to Wikipedia it is  a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration    You can probably use such a  htaccess configuration file for your purpose  In our case you want the webserver to parse HTML files like PHP files   First  create a blank text file and name it   htaccess   You might ask yourself why the file name starts with a dot  On Unix-like systems this means it is a dot-file is a hidden file   Note  If your operating system does not allow file names starting with a dot just name the file  xyz htaccess  temporarily  As soon as you have uploaded it to your webserver in a later step you can rename the file online to   htaccess   Next  open the file with a simple text editor like the  Editor  in MS Windows  Paste the following line into the file  AddType application x-httpd-php  html  htm If this does not work  please remove the line above from your file and paste this alternative line into it  for PHP5  AddType application x-httpd-php5  html  htm Now upload the  htaccess file to the root directory of your webserver  Make sure that the name of the file is   htaccess   Your webserver should now parse   htm and   html files like PHP files   You can try if it works by creating a HTML-File like the following  Name it  php-in-html-test htm   paste the following code into it and upload it to the root directory of your webserver        lt  DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC  -  W3C  DTD HTML 4 0 Transitional  EN  gt        lt HTML gt    lt HEAD gt    lt TITLE gt Use PHP in HTML files lt  TITLE gt    lt  HEAD gt       lt BODY gt       lt h1 gt       lt  php echo  It works      gt       lt  h1 gt     lt  BODY gt    lt  HTML gt    Try to open the file in your browser by typing in  http   www your-domain com php-in-html-test htm  once again  please replace your-domain com by your own domain     If your browser shows the phrase  It works   everything works fine and you can use PHP in   html and   htm files from now on  However  if not  please try to use the alternative line in the  htaccess file as we showed above  If is still does not work please contact your hosting provider

User · Answer

I figured out a simple solution to the PHP include stuff  Simply rename all your  html files to  php and your re good to go

User · Answer

First  what the others said  Forget the echo statement and just write your navbar php as a regular HTML file   Second  your include paths are probably messed up  To make sure you include files that are in the same directory as the current file  use   DIR     include   DIR     navbar php      PHP 5 3 and later include dirname   FILE      navbar php      PHP 5 2

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You can use php code in files with extension  php and only there  iff other is not defined in your server settings    Just rename your file   html to   php    If you want to allow php code processing in files of different format  you have two options to do that   1  Modifying httpd conf to allow this for all projects on your server  by adding   AddHandler application x-httpd-php  htm  html   2  Creating  htaccess file in your separate project top directory with    lt Files   gt      AddType application x-httpd-php  html  lt  Files gt    For second option you need to allow use of  htaccess files in your httpd conf  by adding the following settings   AllowOverride All AccessFileName  htaccess    that is correct for Apache HTTP Server

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Try to get some debugging information  could be that the file path is wrong  for example   Try these two things -  Add this line to the top of your sample page    lt  php error reporting E ALL    gt    This will print all errors warnings notices in the page so if there is any problem you get a text message describing it instead of a blank page  Additionally you can change include   to require     lt  php require   headings php      gt   lt  php require   navbar php      gt   lt  php require   image php      gt    This will throw a FATAL error PHP is unable to load required pages  and should help you in getting better tracing what is going wrong    You can post the error descriptions here  if you get any  and you are unable to figure out what it means

User · Answer

You don t need to be echoing the info within the php file  A php include will automatically include any HTML within that file   Make sure you re actually using a index file with a  php extension   html won t work with php includes   Unless you re telling your server to treat  html files otherwise   Make sure your paths are correctly set up  From your description  the way you ve set it up your header php navbar php image php files should be in your root directory  So your root directory should look like this   index php navbar php image php header php   Otherwise if those PHP files are in a folder called  includes   it should look like so    lt  php include   includes headings php      gt

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I have a similar issue  It appears that PHP does not like php code inside included file  In your case solution is quite simple  Remove php code from navbar php  simply leave plain HTML in it and it will work

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