Please help putting php file into my #body

AirfieldCards

10-29-2011, 04:19 PM

Hi People.

My site is currently running Joomla but I want to get away from that and make it more dynamic to ease my work burden.

I am trying to put together the site with html php and css.

I have the following page http://www.airfieldcards.com/html/index.html and am trying to put a php file into the #body section.

Here is the code for all three files

index.html
<html>
<head>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>

<div id="container">

<div id="header">
<div class="HorizLinks">

</div>

</div>

<div id="horizontalnav">

<div class="navlinks">

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.airfieldcards.com">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.airfieldcards.com">By Name</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.airfieldcards.com">By County</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.airfieldcards.com">By ICAO Code</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.airfieldcards.com">Add Airfield</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.airfieldcards.com">Logbook Calculator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.airfieldcards.com">Contact Us</a></li>

</div>

</div>

<div id="leftnav">This is the leftnav</div>

<div id="rightnav">Please visit our sponsors</div>

<div id="body"><?php include("1.php"); ?></div>

<div id="footer">This is the footer</div>

</body>
</html>

Here is the style.css
#container {

width: 1000px;

}

#header {

width: 1000px;
height: 100px;
position: relative;
background-image: url(images/headerBG.jpg);
border-bottom: 2px solid #000000;

}

#header a {

color: #ffffff;
text-decoration: underline;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 14px;

}

#header a:visited {

color: #000000;
text-decoration: underline;
font-weight: bold;

}

#header a:hover {

color: #cc0000;
text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;

}

.HorizLinks {

position: absolute; top: 77px; left: 180px;

}

.HorizLinks ul {

margin: 0px;

}

.HorizLinks li {

margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px;
list-style-type: none;
display: inline;

}

#horizontalnav {

width: 1000px;
height: 30px;
position: relative;
background-color: #F2D6AF;
border-bottom: 2px solid #000000;

}

.navlinks {

position: absolute; top: 5px; left: 5px;

}

.navlinks ul {

margin: auto;

}

.navlinks li {

margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;
list-style-type: none;
display: inline;

}

.navlinks li a {

color: #000000;
padding: 5px 12px 7px;
text-decoration: bold;
font-size: 15px;
font-family: Verdana;

}

.navlinks li a:hover{

color: #ffffff;
/*background-image: url(images/BGhover.jpg);*/
background-color:#36F;

/*If you want to use a color for the background instead replace above line with background-color: [insert color here with # sign in front];*/
text-decoration: underline;

}

#header p {
color: #000000;
font-weight: bold;
}

.smalltext {

font-size: 9px;
font-family: Arial;

}

#leftnav {

float: left;
width: 168px;
height: 3000px;
background-color: #2949ea;
border-right: 1px dashed #694717;

}

#rightnav {

float: right;
width: 122px;
height: 3000px;
background-color: #e8e8e7;
border-left: 1px dashed #694717;

}

#body {

margin: auto;
width: 710px;
padding: 10px 0px 0px 10px;

}

#footer {

clear: both;
background-color: #D1C0A7;

}

.box {

margin-top: 10px;
padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
background-color: #dddddd;
border: 2px solid #d22929;
width: 350px;
color: #000000;

}

h2 {

font-size: 20px;
color: #cc0000;
padding: 10px;
font-family: Verdana;

}

the 1.php file is simply a echo "hello world" just to test the thing.

Please could someone tell me where I'm going wrong?

SB65

10-29-2011, 05:09 PM

If you're going to use php in a page like this:

<?php include("1.php"); ?

the page either needs to have a .php , not .html, extension, or alternatively you need to modify your .htaccess file so that html pages can execute php - see here (http://php.about.com/od/advancedphp/p/html_php.htm) for an explanation.

AirfieldCards

10-29-2011, 05:30 PM

when I save the file as .php all I get is a blank screen

Any ideas?

SB65

10-29-2011, 06:19 PM

I see the blank screen as well on index.php. If I copy your page code and load it up on xampp it displays OK. Does your server support php?

If it doesn't I'd still expect something to show on your page. Are you sure the file is correct - sorry for the question.

If still no joy try loading the following file on your server as phpinfo.php and see what output you get.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
</body>
</html>

AirfieldCards

10-29-2011, 06:49 PM

Thanks, for your input SB65

I have added the file as phpinfo.php (http://www.airfieldcards.com/html/phpinfo.php) and you can see it loads ok.

SB65

10-29-2011, 06:53 PM

Right, so your server's OK. Running out of ideas on this one and you might be better off in the php forum, but as a last try I wonder if it's something to do with the include - try just using an echo, something like:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php echo "test"; ?>
</body>
</html>

And see if that works.

AirfieldCards

10-29-2011, 07:00 PM

Hi, thanks. That's working. Mmmm

AirfieldCards

10-29-2011, 07:03 PM

I've just re-added the following line in there and it's now working....

<div id="body"><?php include ("1.php"); ?></div>

Go figure? Ho hum. Thanks for your help mate.