index page query from PHP newbie
KiwiBrian
contains a bit of PHP to fetch the message of the day.
I have this working from a daughter test page which has the extension .php.
When I implement this link from my Home Page I want the Home Page to still
be named index.html
How would I implement my desired operation?
TIA
Brian Tozer
Anonymous
Not at all.
Assuming your page is on a provider's server you do not have access to
the server configuration which you would have to change to get the
server to run .html files through PHP.
This is undesirable behaviour because the server would have to process
all .html pages without PHP code through PHP, not just your page. This
puts a lot of additional stress on a high profile webserver.
Why don't you rename your file to index.php? Most servers are configured
to look for an index.php if there is no index.html or index.htm.
Bye!
Geoff Berrow
contained the following:
>When I implement this link from my Home Page I want the Home Page to still
>be named index.html
>How would I implement my desired operation?
The easy option is to name it index.php and change all other links
accordingly.
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KiwiBrian
"KiwiBrian" <bria...@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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Thanks folks for the replies so far.
I was hoping that my Home Page link could go to a special page which had a
.php extension and contained the appropriate snippet of php and was
automatically actioned.
Is this another option?
I use this method at present to funnel all outgoing links to a site that I
want to monitor the number of visits to from my site using Statcounter.
If this method is an option, what would I need in my intermediate page in
place of the a href link, which in testing I have triggered manually.
I hope I am being clear.
TIA
Brian Tozer
Tony
If you're set on keeping the HTML extension, all I could suggest is using
JavaScript instead of PHP.
Stan McCann
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> "KiwiBrian" <bria...@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
> news:d7fi1q$f1v$1...@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>> Thanks folks for the replies so far.
>> I was hoping that my Home Page link could go to a special page
>> which had a .php extension and contained the appropriate snippet of
>> php and was automatically actioned.
>> Is this another option?
>> I use this method at present to funnel all outgoing links to a site
>> that I want to monitor the number of visits to from my site using
>> Statcounter. If this method is an option, what would I need in my
>> intermediate page in place of the a href link, which in testing I
>> have triggered manually. I hope I am being clear.
>> TIA
>> Brian Tozer
>
> If you're set on keeping the HTML extension, all I could suggest is
> using JavaScript instead of PHP.
Or set index.html as simply a redirect to index.php?
You'd get better help if you would explain what you are trying to
accomplish. Is there some specific reason for not changing index.html
to index.php? A lot of links hard coded to index.html for instance?
If that is the reason, a redirect should work.
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