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or I think the more standard (and hopefully more clear in the long run) approach would be to save the file as a .php file. There's no reason to go confusing everything by processing .html files as php (usually, ok so there might be occasionaly a reason to do that, but it'd better be a darned good one)
Only reason to parse .html as .php: If you have over 20 pages linked together WITHOUT a good system of navigation (ie. Includes, iframes, etc, anything where links can be changed on only one page but effects the whole site). Then it becomes a nightmare to change every page to link to a .php instead of .html, but besides that, it's easier to do just that, switch them to .php..
mmm.. that's not darned good enough! but i know what you mean - i had to take over administrating a poorly designed (static) site and they would ask me to like "add a tab" something they thought was small and easily done and it would take me hours of opening, pasting, and closing the stupid things... That's why I'm redoing it all using php, and css and charging a lot!