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  • Jens
    #1

    How to execute PHP

    This is a way too abvious newbie question but nevertheless a
    showstopper. I know how I can get a PHP script to execute by having a
    form with a post method in my regular HTML file. So far so good.

    Now I just want to run a PHP scrip from an HTML file to insert a text
    file, but how do I execute the PHP without the form + post?

    (The text file is a club member list and I want the web page to always
    display the updated list)

    Thanks,

    Jens.

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    • Jan Pieter Kunst
      #2
      Re: How to execute PHP

      Jens wrote:[color=blue]
      > This is a way too abvious newbie question but nevertheless a
      > showstopper. I know how I can get a PHP script to execute by having a
      > form with a post method in my regular HTML file. So far so good.
      >
      > Now I just want to run a PHP scrip from an HTML file to insert a text
      > file, but how do I execute the PHP without the form + post?
      >
      > (The text file is a club member list and I want the web page to always
      > display the updated list)[/color]

      Shortest way I can think of, just showing the contents of memberlist.txt
      without HTML.

      <?php

      header('Content-type: text/plain);
      readfile('/path/to/memberlist.txt' );

      ?>

      I'm sure you can figure it out from here.

      JP

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        • Hans van Kranenburg
          #3
          Re: How to execute PHP

          Jens wrote:[color=blue]
          > This is a way too abvious newbie question but nevertheless a
          > showstopper. I know how I can get a PHP script to execute by having a
          > form with a post method in my regular HTML file. So far so good.
          >
          > Now I just want to run a PHP scrip from an HTML file[/color]
          That can't be done, because a HTML file never reaches a PHP processor.
          [color=blue]
          > to insert a text
          > file, but how do I execute the PHP without the form + post?[/color]
          Just call it .php instead of .html, and make sure php commands are
          between <?php and ?>. Everything outside <?php ?> will not be parsed by
          the php interpreter. Call the .php file directly from your browser.

          E.g. foobar.php:

          <html>
          <head></head>
          <body>

          <?php
          include "members.tx t";
          ?>

          Some other <b>HTML</b>

          <?php
          # some other php etc. etc.
          ?>

          </body>
          </html>

          Hans

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          he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever"

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            • Jens
              #4
              Re: How to execute PHP

              Got you! I have seen the light.

              Thanks,

              Jens.

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