Can I get an SHTML page to parse php code

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Can I get an SHTML page to parse php code

found a lot on getting php to parse shtml but...

fabulousyarn

5:59 pm on Jul 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

I have a rather large shtml site, and a blog that is about the site - I'd like to include some stuff from the blog inside the shtml pages - any way to do that. I've found a lot of stuff going the other way, and maybe I'm not seeing it, but I can't seem to find code that allows me to pull, say, comments from the blog or latest from the blog into a sidebar on the main site. Thanks.

rocknbil

8:08 pm on Jul 2, 2010 (gmt 0)

Should be able to with no special stuff, I thought you needed exec, but do not.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Test PHP in SSI</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>PHP include Test</h1>
<p>You should see "test PHP in SSI" below.</p>

</body>
</html>

File needs to be named with .shtml extension: include.shtml

<?php
header("content-type:text/html");
echo "<p>test PHP in SSI</p>";
?>

For specific chunks, you would probably have to do something custom in the included PHP for, or maybe there's an existing chunk you can get by just copying the url:

blog.php?id=1234&snippet=true

fabulousyarn

2:25 pm on Jul 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

Hi -thanks, I've tested php in shtml, and it def works, using the include situation - I guess my real problem is figuring out how to get 'pieces' of a blog on the site.Ie, your chunks. I was thinking that I would have to include specific files - like the includes in the blog files - does that make sense?

rocknbil

4:33 pm on Jul 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

It kind of does, but without seeing how it's doing it, impossible to say. Let's say one part of your blog has an area that displays snippets.

<?php
echo '<div id="snippet-sidebar">';
include('/path/to/snippet/include.php');
echo '</div>';
?>

So you could take that piece and put it in a file, call it main-page-snippets.php, and use it in your .shtml. Of course, if there are dependent includes, you'd need to include them as well . . . or it may be just a URL you need, as in the first reply, don't know. There's always a way.

fabulousyarn

7:58 pm on Jul 12, 2010 (gmt 0)

hi rocknbil thanks can I bend your 'ear' some more - ok, so lets say I want to include recent posts from the blog on a page of the site...do you have any idea how I met get there from here, or do I need to go down the wordpress loop road and break down wordpress, which I havent done in an eon, and try to figure out what actual reference I need to reference...I think i know your answer but I thought I'd put it out there in the hopes that someone has done this. The folks at bigmedium seem to have built a whole shtml publishing system that does this, but of course, I don't use that so....

rocknbil

1:17 am on Jul 13, 2010 (gmt 0)

Well, me, I'd just grow my own. Figure out the database structure, then

select * from posts order by date desc limit 5;

gives you the last 5 posts. Figure out what the links are to them, let's say it's /blog (or something) and (if!) WP identifies the record by id from a query string, you'd do

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array) {
$link = "/blog?id=" . $row['id'];
$title = $row['title'];
echo "<li><a href=\"$link\">$title</a></li>";
}

All you need to do is figure out how the database is structured, and you can build it yourself. I imagine the WordPress forums have some stuff for you, might even tell you how to do this, but I don't muck about with open source code much . . . not if I can avoid it anyway. :-)