MOVED SERVERS, can't use SSI from old server.. How do I call up member count?

I'm trying to call up the "welcome so-and-so" and the current Online Users on my website. I had it working when both the boards and the site were on the same server using SSI calls, but now that I moved the boards to a new server, the SSI calls to those same files dont work.

Does anyone know of an alternative method to SSI that will allow me to call up these files?

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[Admin]

You can rename the file to PHP and use its include() directive.

[Noel 4 DMB]

does that require changing my other < #include file> calls in my .shtml file? Also, does it require any new header content to make the php include directives work?