Add this to your .htaccess file and HTML files will be handled like PHP files allowing you put PHP in HTML files. AddType application/x-httpd-php .html Richard L. Buskirk -----Original Message----- From: Adolfo Olivera [mailto:olivera.adolfo@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2011 8:38 PM To: Joshua Kehn Cc: robleyd@xxxxxxxxxxx; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Newbie Question Sorry, here is the code. The .php extension is a requirement? Can't it b embedded on a .html file? <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <?php $a = "hello"; $hello ="Hello Everyone"; echo $a; echo $hello; ?> </body> </html> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Joshua Kehn <josh.kehn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jan 1, 2011, at 7:50 PM, David Robley wrote: > > > > And normally would need to be saved as a .php file so the contents will > be > > handled by php. > > > > > > Cheers > > -- > > David Robley > > > > A fool and his money are my two favourite people. > > Today is Boomtime, the 2nd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3177. > > Save the code as hello.php. Copy it to your root web directory (should be > the base directory or something called public_html / www when you FTP in) > and access it from youdomain.com/hello.php > > Regards, > > -Josh > ____________________________________ > Joshua Kehn | Josh.Kehn@xxxxxxxxx > http://joshuakehn.com > > -- Adolfo Olivera 15-3429-9743 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php