PHP Forum

**Gathos** · 11-07-2007, 11:54 AM

I have a simple question.
i am trying to get a variable from my url : http://www.mywebpage.com/quote_form.html?id=1397

my code looks like this:

<head>
<title>quote form</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$id = $_GET['id'];
echo $id;
/?>
</body>
</html>

however id does not show up.
Is this caused because i'm trying to get the variable through a .html extention?
Or is it becuase it is only a link that contained the id variable not a form on the previous page?

I hope this made sense because i need some serious help.

**rogem002** · 11-07-2007, 12:16 PM

I assume the file needs to be .php unless you add an apache handler.

**shivaji** · 12:24 PM

First, in most situation it is not at possible to run php script in html. You need php extension. Second, how I know, you cannot to close /?> php tag like in your example, ?> is right.

Shivaji

**Gathos** · 11-07-2007, 12:25 PM

thank you both very much ... hehehe this was an easy quetion but has stumped me for a long time thank you.

**ericsante** · 11-13-2007, 11:42 PM

if you are running apache you can add .html to the line AddHandler line in the httpd.conf or php.conf as in my case.

Code:

AddHandler php5-script .php .html
AddType text/html .php .html

The issue with doing this is that EVERY file.html that gets served by the web server will be parsed by the PHP engine, which will slow down the web server.