Vim - Activiting HTML snippets on PHP files

Question

I am using vim and snipMate, many times I need to name the HTML files to PHP, just because of 1 or 2 lines of code.

I every time I create a PHP file vim takes it as

Answer 1

You have an uppercase E in your example. The following should work on one line:

au BufRead,BufNewFile *.php set ft=php.html

Answer 2

You will need to make it two separate directives.

au BufRead *.php set ft=php.html
au BufNewFile *.php set ft=php.html