FOAK: PHP

I'm re-engineering a web-site for my choir.

I've used:

<div id="nav"><?php include("nav.php"); ?></div>
<div id="top"><?php include("top.php"); ?></div>

so that the navigation side-bar and top-bar (which are the same on every
page) can be easily edited. So far so good, it works well.

BUT only if I give the pages the .php extension.

You can see the result here

<www.cantabilejersey.com/experimental>

I'd really prefer to use the .html extension.

If I put

AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html

in the .htaccess file then the server parses the .html without sending a
server-error but seems to return a .PHTML.part to the browser, which
seems to bork Firefox.

What have I missed?

I get the same problem if I use the SSI/shtml route, by the way.

 

You're barking up the wrong tree. If you want to write PHP code in .html
files you should be writing something like:

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

 

Thanks very much - I'll give it a go.

 

I'd get rid of the frames as well - a complete PITA for all

 

Those aren't frames, it is a CSS layout lovingly handcrafted to simulate
frames. Although why you'd want to do that beats me!

 

So it is. Sheer genius.

 

Frames were popular in their time for /some/ good reasons: having
navigation stay put was one of them, though I agree they soon became a
right royal PITA.

Have a look at the design I'm working to <www.cantabilejersey.com> the
challenge is to keep the design and functionality while degrading
gracefully, being standards-compliant and meeting accessibility standards
(none of which the original does). I'm also rather anti-flash (don't see
why anyone should have to install plug-ins to view a page properly). I've
changed the news-scroller and slide-shows to run in javascript instead
(and for the pages to be readable if javascript is not enabled).

So the navigation-bar stays put. The stripe on the right in the original
seemed to be a bit of a waste of space to me, too, so I used it for the
'legal' stuff.

So that's why I wanted to do it!

 

This site

http://www.indianwebseo.com/seoblog/treat-html-pages-as-php-page

seems to agree with you.

HOWEVER if I use the first option I get the same problem, if I use the
second then I get the page with no includes.

 

<bad form>

<www.cantabilejersey.com/experimental2/>

has the first option (the one you suggested) in .htaccess

 

Thank you.