PHP Forum

**Bert Rum** · 12-07-2005, 10:16 AM

Hi Everyone,
I am a PhP newbie.
Can someome help me with this problem?

If I save the following code as a php file both html and the php resolves itself on my server but when I save the same code as a html file it only shows the html part but not the php:

<body>
Who is it?
<br/>
<?php
//print output
echo'fred'
?>
</body>

**TrentonD** · 12-07-2005, 06:04 PM

Do you mean that it is now showing "fred", or the whole php code?

(This:
<?php
//print output
echo'fred'
?>
)

You shouldn't be expecting either "fred" or the php code to show when saved as a .html file, because for the php code to actually work, it must be saved as a .php.

This is a real horrible, short explanation, but I hope you can understand what I mean.

Hopefully someone may add something to make this clearer, or maybe you already understand what I am saying?

**HaRRo** · 12-07-2005, 07:42 PM

<body>
Who is it?
<br/>
<?php
//print output
echo'fred'
?>
</body>

This will echo the fred but when saving the file in your browser will change it to HTML not php.
It would be a security risk if you could.

**nasaboy007** · 12-07-2005, 08:36 PM

PHP cannot be seen by the client side because its a server side script. This comes in handy when you have long complex scripts or when you have user authentification. It can still be hacked, but its more secure than having it in the source code. You should expect "Fred" to show up in your source rather than the <?php ?> tags etc.

**ibbo** · 12-08-2005, 07:09 AM

If your running apache you can add this

AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

to your httpd.conf and then files you wish to display code on you remane file.phps. Then and only then can you display your source.

How do you do this in Windows or IIS.

Who cares.

Ibbo