Hello everyone I'm new here. That aside I've a very pressing matter at hand. I run a site (won't put link because I'm not sure of the advertising rules), and I'm trying to put up a new version of it soon. Now the problem is that I want to have a poll. I also want the poll to show the results on the same page as where you voted. Now I know there are PHP scripts that will let me do it, but here's the catch, they require that I use PHP includes on the site to include the poll. But my site is based off of SSI (ends with .shtml), and I'm reluctant to change it because Google has archived my .shtml pages for a while. So I need to be able to include this poll with SSI.

Don't get what I'm talking about? Check this site: http://www.mugglenet.com/ . See the poll? And see what happenes after you vote? That's what I need to be able to do as well. Plus they are also using SSI, but they're quite unwilling to help others, so I can't ask.

Thanks a lot.

PS- I'm real desperate. I need to get the layout by atleast end of this week.

EDIT- The poll script can be CGI or PHP. It doesn't matter.

HyruleKnight,

If you need to enable PHP processing for the .shtml extension and you are using Apache (not sure, just guessing), then edit a line in your Apache configuration file httpd.conf which looks like this one:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

You should be able to add the .shtml extension on the end there to enable .shtml so that it looks like:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .shtml

I just performed a test on my server and it worked fine. This should allow you to insert PHP functionality into your pages without changing your extension.

I know I didn't answer your poll question, but this is a piece of what you will need to do.

Yes I figured that solution out but I'm on a host that doesn't allow me to do that. I do believe they run on Apache though. And they don't have CPanel. The host is 1and1.com

I'm sorry for not being so clear

Thanks

Well, in your .htaccess files, I know there's a trick to have .html files parsed as PHP, I would think you could do the same with .shtml. Put this in your .htaccess file and see what happens:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .shtml

No such luck. I tried the .htaccess thing but no avail. Anyother thing?