PHP code showing in WAMP

Question

I've tryed to setup xampp for 3 hours. Given up with that, having a bit more success with wamp how ever php code isnt compiling.

I have index.htm and header.php in my www folder.

index.htm code:

<?php include('header.php');?>

<body>
    <h1>This is a header</h1>
    <p>this is a paragraph</p>


</body>
</html>

header.php code

<?php
    echo "<!doctype html><html lang='en'><head><title>PAGETITLE</title></head>";
?>

The php code is showing instead of compiling. How do i fix this?

Someone should make note that this is just the *default* behaviour because it's easy enough to have Apache push `.html` extensions through the interpreter. [» first SO question in search result](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11234010/process-specific-htm-page-as-php-on-apache-server) — Emissary, Mar 31 '13 at 19:06

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 31 '13 at 17:30

3

You can't use <?php include('header.php');?> in an HTML (.htm) file so please change that extension to .php and it will work.

edited Mar 31 '13 at 17:30

swiecki

answered Mar 31 '13 at 17:25

user1370510

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '13 at 17:27

1

PHP DOES NOT work, in .html files. It works only in .php files, or .php, .phtml, .php4 .php3, .php5, .phps

answered Mar 31 '13 at 17:27

samayo

2 Answers2