relative URL works, absolute doesn't - why?

Anon

Hi there,

I've got a script I'm using so people can rate the pages they're viewing... I've got one script and simply made it fill in the blanks for the page name and rank of the page in question... this is done by passing the info in the URL and then calling the variables using php. The script is 'included' into the pages to make updates that much easier.

The Problem:

This works fine when the 'include' reference is a releative one. eg. "../../rate/rate.inc.php" but not when the reference is an absolute one "http://lattis-intranet.co.uk/rate/rate.inc.php" in this situation the page name variable is not read by the included script (although everything else works, so the URL is correct)...

any ideas why altering the url should have this affect?

thanks - dunstan orchard

Anon

Not sure but...

If you include a url, that means you ask a webserver to serve it to you.
If you request a php file, the webserver will parse the php file and send you only the output, not the code.

Anon

If the file is on the local machine, use

include("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/rate/rate.inc.php");

If the file is remote, read the following from the documentation:

If the include()ed file is called via HTTP using the fopen wrappers, and if the target server interprets the target file as PHP code, variables
may be passed to the include()ed file using an URL request string as used with HTTP GET. This is not strictly speaking the same thing as
include()ing the file and having it inherit the parent file's variable scope; the script is actually being run on the remote server and the result is
then being included into the local script.

Anon

You think?
But it doesn't send me the code back... it just doesn't send anything - there's a blank space:

So if I code:

<?
echo "test 1";
echo $title;
echo "test 2";
?>

all that comes back with the absolute one is:

 test1test2

while the relative one brings back:

 test1whatever-the-page-title-istest2

If it brought back:

 test1$titletest2

then I'd see your point... isn't this odd... I must be missing something fundemental here :o/

thanks - dunstan

Anon

PERFECT!!!

thanks guys - gosh this forum's good :o)

bye - dunstan

Anon

thank U all...i was looking for this information just today....

Anon

please.. I nedd this script for rating and vote