using php with Xara

[sculptex]

If you read through the links above, all the information is there, but to put it simply you have the following choices;
* in xara, change names of pages to end with .php (this can work for all pages except the first one which could just be a dummy page)
* make changes to your .htaccess file so that the .htm files get processed by php
As you probably realise, changing filenames afterwards is futile and internal links won't work anyway.
You wouldn't need all that HTML, as that would already be generated by xara, assuming you are inserting this code in a html placeholder it would already be in the body section

Edit - oops, didn't see there was a page 2 already!

[cjwillett]

Hi ya camcap,

This is what I did to finally get it to work

1. I had to change the .htaccess file in my servers root directory, add the following:

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

Then I added a rectangle to the page I was working on in Xara 365.
Then I clicked utilities/webproperties while the rectangle was selected
Then I went to placeholder/replace with html BODY
I added the code
<?php
echo “hello world”;
?>

And it worked, I hope this helps you

Cheers

[joicol]

I am also interested to learn more. Don't understand why there is no reply. Did you find a solution ? DId you try what was suggested by jamesd above ?

[tam]

On a linux host, HTML files using a PHP file extension will be processed by the PHP interpreter. Without PHP actually included, the HTML directives in the file will be processed just fine. If there are PHP includes or other commands, as long as the syntax is OK, the html portion is also processed fine.

Take care, Mike

I thank you for this gem of information. I had some PHP code that ran like clockwork but I could not get it running in Xara 10. I could not understand why it would not work. It took 3 minutes after I had read your piece. Thank you, you saved my sanity.