PHP, server side includes, and changing file extensions

[Farser]

On my homepage I have a feed of the five most recent topics in my forum in the form of server side includes, thus my index file was a .shtml extension. Recently I added a php script that showed the latest events in the calendar so i had to rename my index .php...this means that the forum recent topic part has stopped displaying.

Any ideas how I get around this, I am sure it is ridiculously simple to some of you.

Do I need to parse the .shtml as PHP?

thanks

farser

[eelixduppy]

You can parse the .shtml file as PHP or you can include the files with PHP instead of SSI. Are you running apache?

[Farser]

I am with Apache. Which of those would be the easiest option for me to accomplish?

[eelixduppy]

They are both pretty easy. If you can include the SSI stuff with regular PHP includes [php.net] then that would be the best solution IMO. The other method would allow ALL .shtml files to be parsed as PHP, which is something you probably don't want to do.

[Farser]

Ok,
Thanks you very much for your speedy response!
I will give that a go!