how to embed html files in php code?

Question

I have many html files and now i want to call each of the files one by one using some php code. but whenever i try to run the php code for calling those html files from the folder, it doesnot work.

    1.html view
    2.html view
    3.html view

So, 1,2 and 3 are the html files and now by clicking view user should be directed to the link. How can i solve the problem for incorporating html files in php, so that the files will be displayed to user one by one with a view option. And whenever user will click view, user will get the html page viewed.

Note: i m using xampp server in windows7

Any suggestions will be appreciated...

Answer 1

Use the include PHP function for each html file.

example:

<?php
// do php stuff

include('fileOne.html');
include('fileTwo.html');

?>

Answer 2

Small improvement to the accepted answer: you should prefer readfile() over include() or require() for non-PHP files. This is because include() and require() will be processed as PHP code, so if they contain something that looks like PHP (like <?), they may generate errors. Or worse yet, a security vulnerability. (There is still potential security vulnerability if you are displaying user-provided HTML too, of course, but they at least won't be able to run code on your server.)

If the .html files actually contain PHP code, you should name them appropriately.

<?php
// do php stuff

readfile('fileOne.html');
readfile('fileTwo.html');

?>