.php & .shtml?

kaliannah · 27th December 2004, 08:18 AM

Hi all! I hope I used the correct techie terminology in the title. If not, please forgive me. I'm very new to this.

Problem:
I found a wonderful .php site recommender script that I'd love to include on my site; however, the readme file says it should be included in a .php file and my pages are .shtml. It works perfectly and I shouldn't complain, but my navigation areas are missing. I was wondering if there's a way to insert the .php script into a .shtml file so the top navigation menu and the bottom text menu will show? Also, for some reason the refer.php isn't recognizing my .css. Sigh. But it's a great script, I'm sure it's just my error somewhere.

Here's what my working script looks like with missing navigation:
http://www.skshirah.com/refer.php

Sample page that shows where top/bottom navigation should be:
http://www.skshirah.com/refer.shtml

Here's the free script's homepage:
http://gatequest.net/products/Site_Recommender/

Any suggestions? Thanks bunches!!

**Mr. Tech** · 27th December 2004, 09:58 AM

OK, I'm not too familiar with .shtml but I'm guessing this is the code for including the top and bottom navigation links on the refer.php page:


and


These commands will not work on a .php page. They will only work on the .shtml page.

Try replacing those two pieces of code with:

<?php include("/cgi-bin/bottom.cgi"); ?>
and
<?php include("/cgi-bin/side.cgi"); ?>

That should work however, if there is CGI code in those .cgi files, the CGI code will not work. A way around that would be to rename the included files to .php files and converting the CGI code to PHP code.

Regarding the CSS not working, by the looks of things you need to add something like this code to your CSS file:

td{color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;}

Let me know if you have anymore problems.

Good luck.

kaliannah · 27th December 2004, 12:18 PM

Thanks for the help! I'll try it now.

kaliannah · 2nd January 2005, 08:51 AM

Bummer it didn't work. I'm determined to use this script, so maybe if I put it in a pop-up window? Hmmm. Thanks though!

**Mr. Tech** · 4th January 2005, 11:17 AM

Did you get any errors? What happened when you tried to do this?

Maybe you should move the side and bottom pages out of the cgi-bin.... They don't need to be there if they are PHP files.

Thanks

Ben