Including php in html

[djme]

Hi,
I have a simple counter file written in php (just increments a value stored in a text file) when parsed all it displays is '35' or whatever the visitor number is.

I want to include this into a html homepage (I don't really want to change index.htm to index.php) so im wondering if i could use some html/javascript that would run counter.php so i see the output.

Something like this
<br>You are visitor number <b>(Code_for_including_counter.php)</b> Welcome</br>

Is this possible as I can't find a way to do it though i don't see why not. I suppose it would be possible using an iframe but i didnt want to do that either

[grahame]

I use

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AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

in a file called .htaccess in my home directory. This means that all .html files are in fact treated as PHP - which is no problem because PHP is an extension of HTML. If you do your own web server admin, you can configure it to allow you to use our method. If you buy space from an ISP, they might (or might not) let you do what I've suggested.

[djme]

Hi, no they wouldnt let me do that,
I found that using this

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<script url="./counter.php"></script>

accesses the script and increments the file by 1, however it doesn't output the number.

i.e.
<br>Number of visitors since January: <script url"./counter.php"></script>
doesn't output the number (I have the echo statement so it outputs the number if i just run counter.php as normal) but nothing when it runs from the html

[guelphdad]

then create index.php and use that. for your index.html file, if you are worried about people having it bookmarked or whatever, do a redirect to your php file.

[djme]

yeh but i didnt really want to do that if theres another way to do it - it seems pointless for such little code

[djme]

I just thought as im accessing the php and its carry out its task, all i need to do is import the data from the text file

[rproctor]

Hey man you can do it actually! And you can do it quite easily. This little article has helped me do things sort of what your asking for many times. Its a minature implimentation of the AJAX, but without all the bells and whistles. You can run php scripts on the fly by accessing them through js.

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/PHP-a...Your-Resources

[Pheonix]

I'm assuming you are familiar with JavaScript, what you could make your counter.php into a JavaScript file, where it puts the number of visitors into a variable, include the script in the header of your html file, then call the variable with a short JavaScript. It should be really easy.

[djme]

Cheers for that rprocter and pheonix, il try those out.