[betherg]

My website is on a server that doesn't support PHP. But since I wanted to use service side includes, I created a local host in my computer using XAMPP and used PHP includes.

When the webpages are ready, I open these PHP files on a browser, view their HTML source code and then upload these HTML files on to the server. As I have start to have more and more pages, the task of viewing code and creating HTML files from these codes gets time consuming. Is there any other work around for this? Has anyone encountered a similar situation. Any help would be much appreciated.

[BurgerBoy]

Change to a hosting company that does support php.

[writerguy]

Absolutely agree with what BurgerBoy said. I don't think I know anyone successfully doing affiliate marketing with a server/webhost that doesn't offer PHP. In fact, I don't personally know of any webhosting company that doesn't offer its customers PHP.

Gary

[bradk]

to further that, while I applaud your resourcefulness, that really does defeat the purpose of PHP altogether.

that said, I imagine there is probably a way to facilitate this in a step-by-step approach, but without specifics, it's kind of hard to piece it together.

You should be able to use an implementation of WGET for example to pull the page from your local webserver into a file, tie that into an FTP client that sends files automatically when updated, etc.

just makes more sense to find a LAMP host. I wouldn't entertain a host without PHP support.

[Cagles Mill]

Is it possible that you sat up your account on a Windows server, but the host also offers a Linux server? If you are on a Windows server they should offer ASP, but of course not PHP (since Microsoft can't make any money off PHP). But if the host also has Linux servers then their Linux servers should offer PHP. In that case you would just need to have them switch you to a Linux server.

[bradk]

PHP can run on Windows boxes/hosts

although ASP is probably one of the very few reasons why one would even elect a Windows-based host anyway,

[soda]

Originally Posted by betherg

My website is on a server that doesn't support PHP. But since I wanted to use service side includes, I created a local host in my computer using XAMPP and used PHP includes.

So is your main web site done in ASP?
You can always go the service path (e.g. REST-style architectures). This way you don't have to host on the same machine. Although this is not optimal. You should try to get your site to work on one platform. Otherwise you may end up with scalability disaster.