Call PHP from HTML

Relative PHP newbie....

Can you call a PHP script from an HTML file and have it return something?
I have a small area on a HTML web page that I want to dislay some data returned by a PHP program.
Is there anyway to call and get text returned from an html file besides using a form?

thanks,
TGW

If this HTML area is a html frame you can call a php script in src tag

zareef ahmed

Hi zareef,
No this is not a frame. I have php code that retrieves a stock quote and want to put that quote inside of a small rectangular area on the page. The page is an existing html and I did not want to change it to a php page.....

TGW

If you dont mind using js, make everything you echo in php begin with:
document.write('

and end with:
');

then add:
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="yourpage.php"></SCRIPT>