Include footer not working Options

[HenryH]

New to all this so please be gentle with me !

Have created a simple .php file :

CODE

<?php
echo "<p>Copyright © 2016-" . date("Y") . " Some info?</p>";
?>

The intention being to create a uniform footer for each webpage.
On the HTML file for the webpage I have the line :-

CODE

<?php include 'footer.php';?>

(OR <?php include '/footer.php';?>)

I get NOTHING included on my webpage.
What an I doing that is wrong??

Any help much appreciated.

[Christian J]

It's usually very simple: just create a textfile called ".htaccess" and add one line of text in it (exactly what may vary, so ask your web host), then upload it to your web root directory. But again, it's not necessary unless you really want it.