How do I add PHP code/file to HTML(.html) files?

Question

I can\'t use PHP in my HTML pages. For example, index.html. I\'ve tried using both:

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Answer 1

You can't run PHP in .html files because the server does not recognize that as a valid PHP extension unless you tell it to. To do this you need to create a .htaccess file in your root web directory and add this line to it:

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

This will tell Apache to process files with a .htm or .html file extension as PHP files.