Embedding a PHP script?

[daj]

I think we could help you out with a better refresh for your page

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<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300" >

cough! The work of the Devil. LOL

[rp4111]

Thanks for the help betle.

What do you suggest for a better method of auto refreshing?

[rp4111]

I was doing some research tonight on PHP and came across this http://www.visitor-stats.com/articles/c ... te-php.php

This is what I found interesting:

Adding PHP functionality to HTML files

Download this file and upload it to the root directory of your website, then rename it to '.htaccess'

This tells your website server to look for any .htm or .html pages and treat them as if they where a .php page... all without even renaming your pages!

You don't even have to update your links, all of your .html or .html pages should be able to run PHP now.

Could this method be used with Cumulus?

[beteljuice]

It is possible to tell the server to check .htm(l) files for php content, but I won't go into that.

WARNING !
You may already have a .htaccess file ! - you may even have one per directory.

NOTE: the . in front makes it "invisible" ! - That means you can't 'click' on it with a GUI ftp client.

If you can't 'see' the file check what options you have on your ftp client, you may be able to make it visible, or there may be a <right-click> 'manual' commands where you can type in the name of the file to transfer BACK TO YOUR PC and / or COPY to a 'visible' name.

You can experiment by making a file .myfile and uploading that to your web space to see what commands you may have to do.

Here is part of my 'public' .htaccess
EDIT: If you DO have one it WON'T look like this - an example of possible content ONLY !

ErrorDocument 404 /~dickie/404.html
addtype text/vnd.wap.wml wml
addtype application/vnd.wap.wmlc wmlc
addtype text/vnd.wap.wmlscript wmls
addtype application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc wmlsc
addtype image/vnd.wap.wbmp wbmp
addtype x-world/x-svr svr
addtype audio/x-mpegurl .m3u

If you DO have an EXISTING .htaccess file, you will need to ADD the line:

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AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm .html

Exactly as seen above.
Then copy it back to your 'public' web space.

Then yes, ALL .htm and .html files will be parsed by the php pre-processor.

[rp4111]

I use E-rice.net and it DOES NOT have a .htaccess file anywhere on the server. I checked the forums and you must create one. Should I download the one it tells me to off of that site that I linked above? Or would it be better to start it from scratch?

EDIT: I think I may have it working. I took your .htaccess code and added that other code to it and uploaded it to my server. Then I found code for a simple digital clock for testing purposes and it seems to work!

[beteljuice]

You shouldn't need the code I posted !

That's 'old' stuff from the early days of WAP and a specialist (redundant) 3D graphics utility.

BTW this has seriously gone 'off topic' and beyond the remit of this forum.

.. although perhaps useful to others

[rp4111]

Indeed it has! Thanks for all the help though. Maybe somebody else that comes along with be able to sift through all that and find something useful!

[TNETWeather]

It's a way to get .htm or .html files to be parsed for php code.. but...

If you end up really using PHP you most likely will move away from the uploaded whole file templates since you can do more with much less uploading with a php template that you don't upload and just read the data obtained from a tag file.

One of the major advantages of php is that you don't have to upload all the html file over and over... which saves a lot of bandwidth.