Can't get Wamp to use PHP include - Really need some help please

Server Config
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Hi guys,

I have a fresh install of the most up to date version and am trying to get PHP includes working. I have had it working on previous versions but don’t remember what I did.

I have tried all the suggestions found online but still have no luck.

This seems to be the most popular solution, however, this still doesn’t work.

Then add the following code:
AddType text/html .shtml
Options +Includes
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
The above code should be above “<Directory />” in httpd.conf file
Then find “Options Indexes FollowSymLinks” and replace it with:
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +Includes
Restart wamp and enjoy.

Could someone please tell me how to get this working as I reall need it quick.

I have one more problem, when I click on the Wamp icon, my projects and select my project it says it can’t find it. If I manually navigate to localhost/redesign/ then the site will appear. Any ideas??

Version of Operating system? - Windows 7 64bit
Version of Wamp Server installed? - 2.5
Version of Apache you are running? - Apache : 2.4.9
Version of MySQL you are running? - MySQL : 5.6.17
Version of PHP you are running? - PHP : 5.5.12
PHPMyAdmin : 4.1.14
SqlBuddy : 1.3.3
XDebug : 2.2.5

I have tried this and still nothing:

Inserted Include after this line - Options Indexes FollowSymLinks

Uncommented these two lines:

AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

I have made sure that include_module is selected.

I am using this line in my html file:

<?php include ‘form.php’ ?>

Still not working.

What the hell am I doing wrong?

Blinky

2

Turns out I have to have the file containing the html named with a php extension. Not sure why as I have done this before and left the extension as html.

Nevermind it is working now.

3

Just a bit of background, it is considered a bad practice to use html as an extension for PHP to begin with. As any html files that don’t need to parse PHP, must run through the PHP parser anyway, thus slowing their load times.

4

Cheers for the info, is it then better for me to convert all my HTML files to PHP extensions?

Most of my HTML files do not have any PHP in them, however, I do not know whether it is good practice or not to have all the filetypes the same or not.

Cheers again,

Blinky.

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No for the same reason. If you take a pure HTML file and give it a PHP extension, you are effectively doing the same thing as allowing HTML files execute PHP commands. You are forcing pure HTML files to go through the PHP parser and thus take a bit longer (negligible in most cases, but it still is slower) to load.

So yes, keep pure HTML with the html extension and give those that have PHP in them with the php extension.

6

Thank you very much for the info, learnt two new things today :slight_smile:

Right off to get things running.

Cheers

Blinky