How to add PHP to your Webpage

Those webmasters who have the majority of their website built using server side includes (SSI’s) for headers, footers and navigation etc may have difficulties in inserting a php script into the main body of the page.  You may think you can simply change the page extension to a .php but you will find that the script works but all your common files referred to by the SSI’s are missing and the page layout is destroyed. 

To overcome this problem, create your php script in its own file and upload to your web server.  At the point you need to insert the php script just call it up with your normal SSI code i.e.

<!--#include virtual="directory/script.php"-->

Note – this will only work on .shtml pages.

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[Updated - 29 March 2007]

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