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Feb 13.2015

Hi,
I need to ask what must be a very basic question – apologies. I have a website where I upload/download files via FTP. I would like to edit the html code for a few pages but all I can see on my server via FTP client (FileZilla to be exact) is only php files – i.e. “index.php”.

Here’s where I’m confused – When I hit my homepage’s URL, right click and select view source I see the source for an html page with embedded php but I can’t find this index.[B]html [/B]page on my server in order to edit the html code. When I look at the code for index.php I see just that, only the php code but no html. When the index.php is accessed via URL where does the html part come from? Where can I find this html page in order to edit???

Again, sorry for the basic question and thanks in advance.

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@gjerichFeb 14.2015 — hello roddick,

php code isn't shown in source code because it render html elements at server/host side... your index file is .php and generate html elements. very very [B]basic[/B] practice is something like this. for example:

file: test.php
[code=php]
<!-- at the top can be pure html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- header elements -->
</head>
<bod>
<?php
echo '<h1>Hello friend</h1>';
?>
</body>
[/code]
this code will render pure html and in souce will look like
[code=php]
<!-- at the top can be pure html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<!-- header elements -->
</head>
<bod>
<h1>Hello friend</h1>
</body>
[/code]
p.s. php can be placed anywhere you want. header, body, footer... it depends how complex site is.

hope this is helpful.
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@gjerichFeb 14.2015 — sorry i forget end tag to close document in both cases with:
[code=php]</html>[/code]
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@gjerichFeb 14.2015 — and [code=php]<bod>[/code] is [code=php]<body>[/code]
typo :mad:
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@roddickauthorFeb 15.2015 — and [code=php]<bod>[/code] is [code=php]<body>[/code]
typo :mad:[/QUOTE]

Thank you very much for your reply. That helps me put things into context.
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