include php script inside HTML

Question

I am a newbie and have never used PHP before. I want to execute PHP script from an HTML file on Linux. What do I need to do?

This is the content of my HTML file:

Answer 1

You either run pass the file path as an argument to the php command line program, or you configure a web server to execute the page as PHP (the specifics of which depend on the web server you use) then visit the URL of the page.