How do I output information from a PHP page to an HTML page?

I have a .php web page with these lines:

Code:

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//gather all the comments
$commentquery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM comments WHERE tutorialid='$tutid' ORDER BY date DESC") or die(mysql_error());

//count all the comments for the total
$commentNum = mysql_num_rows($commentquery);

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I want the value of $commentNum which is going to be a number, to be displayed on another page that's written in HTML (.html extension) from the .php page.

How can I transfer this number over?

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Add the following to an .htaccess file.

Code:

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AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

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