-----Original Message----- From: mike bode [mailto:mikebode1@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 25 August 2009 07:16 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Beginner question I am trying to use PHP on my web site I am developing now. I have installed Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.2. My problem is that I can execute PHP code embedded in my HTML code, but I can't execute the same cose when I put it into a separate .php file that i then call from within the html code. for example: I have a html file with <body> <?php echo "Printing with php"; ?> <?body> and it works fine. When I take out the php code and put it inot a file pp.php, and I call that file with my browser ("localhost/pp.php"), it works, too. But when I change the html code to: <body> <script type="text/javascript" src="pp.php"></script> </body> I get a blank page. this is probably something really stupid, but I have been wrecking my head for days now, and I can't figure it out. anybody has an idea? -- I presume your html/php code is in a file with a .php extension? If not then change the extension to "php" because most other webservers won't parse php code in a html file. If you have a .php file you can mix html and php the way you described, and you can put your php code between the <?php and ?> tags. The php script you're trying to include in your html code with javascript <script type="text/javascript" src="pp.php"></script> would presumably echo out the javascript code that ends up in your html page, but if you don't know php then you're trying to run before you can walk. If possible try to see what javascript code is being generated (echoed) by the php script and put it in a normal .js file (e.g. pp.js) and then use it like any other javascript file <script type="text/javascript" src="pp.js"></script> This isn't always possible because often php is used to decide what javascript to output (otherwise why bother). If you have to use php to generate your javascript code then start with small steps - try echoing some simple js code in your pp.php (like an alert) just so you can see how it works. Once you get that working you can move on to more useful things. To illustrate, what's actually happening with the code you have at the moment is this: The browser parses the initial html code and finds <script type="text/javascript" src="pp.php"></script> And sends a request back to the server for pp.php The server runs pp.php and send the output generated by the php script back to the browser, so effectively the browser ends up with <script type="text/javascript">Printing with php</script> Obviously that isn't going to work. Hopefully you can now see what the problem is and how to fix it. Cheers Arno -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
