How to use php and SSI on the same file?

[sodani]

I'd like to use server-side-includes in a particular file, which would require the extension .shtml, but I also want to use php within in - .php. Is there a way for me to do both? Am I going about this the wrong way?

[abbeyvet]

Why not use PHP includes and make them .php pages?

[sodani]

yeah I suppose I can do that. It's just a lot of pages that I'd have to update, and then I would have to redirect the .shtml urls to .php. Ah well.

[penders]

Can you configure your server to parse .shtml files for PHP, as you can other file extensions (via the httpd.conf / .htaccess file on Apache)...?

Such as...
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

[sodani]

This site is on shared hosting, so I don't think I can make that configuration change.

[penders]

... but if it's possible to make this 'configuration change' by just adding a line to an .htaccess file (as suggested in the above threads) - which can reside in any directory and *should* be possible to edit on a shared hosting account - then I would have thought this might be possible...? (In theory anyway... I have not tried this)

[coopster]

A couple of other related threads that might be helpful:

Parse HTML or not [webmasterworld.com]
When parsing SSI's, PHP files don't work [webmasterworld.com]