Could use some php include help here...

[Agenator]

So I'm trying to use thirdchord for a band's website that I'm working on. The script works great but I cant seem to get the script to embed the track grid (third chord generates a unique track grid for each album which can be embedded in an html page). The embed uses and include statement as follows:

<?php 
$ID=1;
include("/home/mpband/public_html/thirdchord_0_8_4/trackGrid.php");
?>

When i go to insert that into my download page (which is just an html file and an external style sheet). It doesn't show up. For that matter, if I try and echo something with php it doesn't show up either. So my question is, how do I get the php code to execute?

[t2t2t]

Use relative paths, eg. If your file is under public_html:

<?php 
$ID=1;
include("thirdchord_0_8_4/trackGrid.php");
?>

[Agenator]

tried and failed, It still doesn't show up (like I said, no php code will execute, even a simple echo command). Could it be that I didn't specify that php code would be included (other than the <?php tag) or could it be that i didn't specify a doc type?

[t2t2t]

Well, the most obvious question would be is it a .php file? (just checking)

[diabolo]

(third chord generates a unique track grid for each album which can be embedded in an html page)

to execute any PHP function it has to be *.php, to tell the server to start looking for the <?php tags and execute what's inside of them;otherwise it will just look at it as if it is a regular html file and not execute php

[Agenator]

to execute any PHP function it has to be *.php, to tell the server to start looking for the <?php tags and execute what's inside of them;otherwise it will just look at it as if it is a regular html file and not execute php

And I suddenly realize how little i know about php
Thanks alot to the both of you!

[diabolo]

And I suddenly realize how little i know about php
Thanks alot to the both of you!

its ok, when I first started I thought like that too that I could execute php in html; but I quickly learned that none of my scripts were working

[Twinkie]

Hehe, we all run it to stupid mistakes. Im sure some of you seen my first threads XD

[leafypiggy]

you can, in theory parse PHP in an html file, if you tell the server to do so via the .htaccess

but, yeah. thats simpler. :D