PHP Forum

**andyp** · 02-29-2008, 08:13 PM

in my project, i have a template file called index.php this file has got a script in it that is <?php title(); ?> . the index file gets the source of this file and outputs it to the browser. the design is alright but its not parsing the php script. how do i fix it and why is it happening?

**joder** · 02-29-2008, 08:17 PM

Maybe it's because it's Friday!

but I need a little more info. Are you getting an error? If not, turn debugging on in PHP and turn on error reporting. Sorry, can't remember to code to do that off hand.

Can you provide more code?

**tripy** · 02-29-2008, 08:29 PM

I think your problem is that you try to access the page without passing by a php enabled web server.

PHP is a server side scripting language. This means that the PHP engine must analyze the .php page, and replace the instructions in it with the result these instructions generate on the server before sending the modified page to the browser.

If you access the page without passing through a server, or that the server has no PHP support, you will see the PHP script, as it will not be replaced.

**frendzforum** · 03-01-2008, 07:07 AM

can u paste the script here.. so we can see it

**andyp** · 07:35 AM

the function prototype to output the page is:

PHP Code:


			
 function DisplayPage( $page )
 {
  //get file contents
  $source = file_get_contents($page.'.php');
  //echo the template file
  print $source;
 }

and the template file called index.php is:

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title><?php intro(); ?></title>

I've only giving a snippet because this is the actual part thats the problem

**joder** · 03-01-2008, 10:29 AM

With the code you supplied, I don't see anything in one that references the other.

**dlaroche22** · 03-01-2008, 10:51 AM

I see what you are trying to do. From the looks of it when you get the file contents and print them the calling function is printing the .php file as text, because its not getting parsed before being printed. I would look into PECL tidy, because it had functions for parsing text and HTML. I hope this helps some what and points you in the right direction.

**tripy** · 03-01-2008, 01:42 PM

Quote:

I would look into PECL tidy

No, Tidy is here to correct invalid html into a valid one.

What he needs to do is an include() or a require(). This will interpret the PHP code.

**andyp** · 03-01-2008, 01:44 PM

Thanks