I've got a web page that has a SSI script on and it I saved it as a .shtml . Is their a way that I can also do PHP on this page?? Does .shtml also run PHP scripts??

Thanks for the help

Keith Slater

I'm afraid, that without reconfiguring your server you are stuck to an either/or situation.

To be perfectly honest I don't see any reason why you should want to combine both technologies, as PHP is far more secure, robust and is much faster than SSI.

If you look through the PHP documentation you will undoubtedly find an equivalent command.

Tim Green

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Ah thanks I didnt realize you could do the same thing with PHP and I found the code now and it works. Thanks a lot!!


Keith Slater

You can also use PHP in SSI pages.... SSI will include the output of any file be it text, html, perl, PHP or whatever.... and vice versa.

PHP inside an SSI page
&lt;!--#include virtual="/path/to/phpscript.php" --&gt;

SSI in PHP
&lt;? virtual("file.shtml"; ?&gt;

TheXhippy

True XHippy, true. The same can be said in that you can get PHP to write ASP pages dynamically... but one has to question *why* you would actually want to do that ?

There is no valid reason, in truth, that you would want to do that if your server directly supports PHP.

I guess this could be useful if you were to develop a site that used some PHP pages, and some CGI pages etc. But no-one in their right minds would want to do that.

None-the-less, thanks for the info XHippy.

Cheers


Tim Green

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