I still seem to be missing something. I guess the easiest thing for me to
do is just show you my code. All I want is to be able to reference the
$hotspots array from any .html page oon my site. I thought I could include
hotspot.php and then reference the array using <?= ?> syntax. What should I
do? The one requirement is that I cannot make all my pages PHP. They must
be html.
HTML PAGE (test.html):
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<? include("hotspot.php"); ?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<?=$hotspots['kitten']?>
</body>
</html>
PHP PAGE (hotspot.php):
<?
include_once("../board/db_fns.php");
echo "hotspot = ".$hotspots;
if (!isset $hotspots){
$connect = connect_to_db();
$query = "SELECT * FROM hotspots";
$result = mysql_query($query);
$count = mysql_numrows($result);
$hotspots = array();
for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++)
{
$hotspot = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$hotspots[$hotspot['hotspot']]=$hotspot['val'];
}
print_r($hotspots);
}
?>
"Bogdan Stancescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi Alexander!
>
> You're missing the distinction between a server-side script (PHP) and a
> client-side script (JavaScript, VB etc). When you use the syntax you
> used, the browser attempts to download the src and execute it - and it
> can't do that, because in the best case the php code runs on the server
> and returns "test" (your echo()) and then it "tries" to run that as php
> code, which again it doesn't know how. It does work for JavaScript
> however, because it downloads the JavaScript file (which is plain text)
> and then executes the code (because it knows how to execute JavaScript).
>
> What you should do would be write
> <? include("hotspot.php"); ?>
> instead of "<script language... etc".
>
> Bogdan
>
> Alexander Ross wrote:
> > I have a .php file whose purpose, ultimately, is to set one variable;
> > $hotspot. Now I want to include that var in a bunch of places in my
html
> > page (it must remain html). So this was my thought. In the <head>
include
> > the following:
> >
> > <script language="php" src="hotspot.php"></script>
> >
> > and then anywhere in the html doc I want to print the value of $hotspot
I
> > type:
> >
> > <?=$hotspot?>
> >
> > but it doesn't work. I have a feeling I cant include a php script that
way
> > because in trying to debug the problem I made the first line of
hotspot.php
> > = echo "test"; and the word test never shows. What am I missing?
> >
> > Thnks
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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