How to create php file in html

Question

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to link external PHP file to HTML. When we are working on some enormous projects, we usually link one file to another. Because we don’t want to add all our code in just one file. And we want to make it more structured and readable.

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Changing file extension:
Creating a .htaccess file:
Conclusion:
How do I code a PHP file in HTML?
How can I create PHP file?
Can you put PHP in a HTML file?
How do I open a PHP file in HTML?

If you are working on a PHP project, you may need to link External PHP file to HTML file For example, we have our separate files for the navbar, header, and footer named navBar.php, header.php, and footer.php, respectively. In our index.html, which is our landing page, we want to add these files to this html page. So, how to do that?

As we know that HTML and PHP are distinct languages, and we cannot directly link these files. In this article, you will learn two different ways to connect one or more external PHP files to HTML.

Changing file extension:

Changing the file extension is the most common and easy solution you can adopt to accomplish this task.

Let us take a simple example of having two files index.html and nav.php. And we want to link the PHP file to the HTML.

You need to change that .html file to .php file. In this way, you can easily link one php file to another.

Here, we use the include() function. This statement takes all the code that is present in a given file and copies that into a file that calls this function.

You can also use require() function instead of include().

They both are the same except one thing, which is when the specified file is not found, then the include() function throws a warning but continues the code execution. Whereas the require() will cause a fatal error and stops further execution.

Creating a .htaccess file:

For some reason, if you don’t want to change your html file to php, there is
one way to do so, you need to follow the following steps:

Create a .htaccess file in the root directory of your project.
Copy the following text in the file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm

It will force the Apache server to parse HTML or HTM file as PHP script.

In this piece of code, you can see that we have our file in .html. This code will give us the same result without changing our file type.

Conclusion:

So, there are two parts of creation of new file:

creation of content
creation of own file

First you need to create content of that file. Here you can combine HTML and PHP code. For example

$TagCode = '<body>'.$Content.'</body>';

Or use nay template engine or code generator - and generated code save into any variable that you will use as content of created file.

And then you may create own file:

$File = fopen($Filename, $Mode);

where

`$Filename` means name of generated file (including its path)
`$Mode` means mode of file generation

Both arguments may be passed also directly (for example fopen('file.ext', 'a'))

Writing content of file follows

$Status = fwrite($File, $TagCode);

Then file is closed.

fclose($File);

And that is all - unless you would control if file was created correctly (then you use that function fwrite returns TRUE or FALSE - that you store in any variable - it is better than direct checking).

if($this -> Content === FALSE)
{
        ... /* error handling */
}

There are following modes of opening of files

a - file content is not overwritten; only for adding of content; new content is placed below older content
a+ - file content is not overwritten; for adding/reading of content; new content is placed below older content
r - file content may be only read
r+ - file content is not overwritten;, for adding/reading of content; new content is placed above older content
w - file content is overwritten, only for adding of content
w+ - file content is overwritten; for adding/reading of content

Instead functions fopen, fwrite and fclose may be used also file_puts_content, but I like fopen, fwrite and fclose more.

How do I code a PHP file in HTML?

Step 1: Firstly, we have to type the Html code in any text editor or open the existing Html file in the text editor in which we want to use the PHP. Step 2: Now, we have to place the cursor in any tag of the <body> tag where we want to add the code of PHP. And, then we have to type the start and end tag of PHP.

How can I create PHP file?

To create a new PHP file within a project:.

In PHP Explorer view, select the Project within which you would like to place the file..

Right-click and select New | PHP File -or- go to File on the Menu Bar and select New | PHP File..

The PHP File creation dialog will be displayed..

Enter the name of the file and click Next..

Can you put PHP in a HTML file?

As you can see, you can use any HTML you want without doing anything special or extra in your PHP file, as long as it's outside and separate from the PHP tags. In other words, if you want to insert PHP code into an HTML file, just write the PHP anywhere you want (so long as they're inside the PHP tags).