because the time.php is parsed by php before it's sent to the client. the time.html is not it's assumed to be a static webpage and just sent as-is to the client. On Sunday 27 November 2005 12:46, Oil Pine wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to php scripting and would like to ask you a basic question. > > Could you kindly explain to me why "time.php" works but "time.html" does > not? > > pine > > > > time.php > ------------------------------------------------------ > <?php > > $serverdate = date("l, d F Y h:i a"); > print ("$serverdate"); > print (" <p>"); > > ?> > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > time.html > --------------------------------------------------------------- > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> > <html> > > <head> > <title>Local Time</title> > <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Text Editor"> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > </head> > <body> > <p>This is a test.</p> > <?php > $serverdate = date("l, d F Y h:i a"); > print ("$serverdate"); > print (" <br>"); > ?> > <p></p><p>This is the end.</p> > </body> > </html> > ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php