I was wondering how to do this

[Linera]

I saw on http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com that the forums are built in html and not in php.How do you build a forums like this?please help me out.Thank you.

[smiles]

that because you cant see php code in view source , it had been done by server , a compute center far away from you , what you see is done by browser , just HTML or Script ...

[Linera]

its not using php though.or you would see in the address bar http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/forum.php or http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.phporhttp://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/topic.php

[Jonas]

Most likely it's using PHP, but it can also be another serverside technology. It's possible to configure your server you see, so it for example parses .html files for php, which is likely to be what they have done.

[Linera]

I notice it has javascript files in the coding.

[boen_robot]

I notice it has javascript files in the coding.

So? A server side scripting language is still the thing to work with the database (please oh please, just don't ask what's a database).

[real_illusions]

So? A server side scripting language is still the thing to work with the database (please oh please, just don't ask what's a database).

whats a database??only joking

[jlhaslip]

I saw that one coming from a mile away

[Linera]

So how can I do this style forums on my site?

[justsomeguy]

Set up your server to send HTML files to the PHP engine.

[Jonas]

Find the .htaccess file, and add this in there:AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

[Linera]

which means i'll be able to use php coding in html files?

[Jonas]

Yup, that should work. Granted php is installed on your server of course.

[Linera]

i know its installed as i have a php forums installedI was looking into making a better forumsthanks for your help.

[reportingsjr]

I have a question regarding .htaccess, I tried to edit mine so php could be parsed through .html. But instead it just forced a download. What did I do wrong! I had it like you posted Jonas but with more such as .php and .htm. It would be nice to figure it out.

[Jonas]

http://www.wsabstract.com/howto/htaccess9.shtml

What if your server wasn't set up to deliver certain file types properly? A common occurrence with MP3 or even SWF files. Simple enough to fix: AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf

AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf tells the server to send files with swf extension with the MIME type application/x-shockwave-flash. Similarly, writing AddType application/x-httpd-php .html should tell the server to send files with html extension as PHP files, and so be sent to the PHP parser. It's possible though that it should be x-httpd-php html without the . (dot) infront of html. When I first googled (yes, it's that simple) for ".htaccess" and "parsing html files for php", I found an example with the dot in front of html: http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/459Apologies.

[Linera]

It works greathttp://www.souimappers.post2hostit.com/phptest/make sure you copy the line below and place it at the end of the document below the last line.AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

[Linera]

How would I parse xml in a html file?

[justsomeguy]

If you are talking about code inside of an HTML file to parse XML, HTML can't do anything dynamic. It is purely a formatting language. You could probably do it in Javascript, or else you would need to use a server-side language with some more power.

[Linera]

look in previous posts. i was shown how to get html to parse php

[justsomeguy]

OK, then you're talking about a PHP document, not an HTML document. Regardless of the file extension, if it gets sent to the PHP engine then it is a PHP document.Here is the XML reference on php.net:http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.phpOr if you have PHP 5.1, then you can use this instead:http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xmlreader.php

[boen_robot]

I would advise more for the DOM functions. Some of them have already done wonders for me and I haven't explored and mastered them all yet.Another way you may use to... parse... XML documents is XSLT. You may execute XSLT transformation with PHP by the use of PHP's XSL(T) functions and by doing so, the user agent will get the result code of the transformation.btw as justsomeguy already mentioned, what determines the type of a document is how it is parsed, not what it's file extension is (just wanted to paraprase him).

[Linera]

listen, i was shown how to have a html file get sent through the php parser.Now I want to know how to get html file to get sent through the xml parser.

[justsomeguy]

Through which XML parser? To my knowledge, there is not a server-side XML parser unless you build one programmatically, such as with PHP. If you want the browser to parse the file as an XML file, which IE cannot do, then you will need to have the server send the mime type of the file as either application/xml or application/xhtml+xml.What XML are you trying to parse, what is the goal of using an XML parser?

[Linera]

I want to put xml coding into a html file just like i can put php coding into a html file