file() to external PHP file not working

Anon

I am working on a page templating system, and I have the templating function set up to handle local .htm documents different than (ANY) .php file. The reason, I can't call
file("whatever.php?blablabla") on a local file. It has to translate it to http://myserver/whatever.php.

The problem? Well, I wrote a VERY similar script on another one of my computers, and it worked fine (though it had other problems, so I scrapped it). I rewrote it today, almost identical, but now it can't load PHP files. The three key lines are

print "<br>Loading $fn";
$fd = join('',file($fn));
print "<br>Loading done!";

now, assuming $fn = http://myserver/test.php, and ALL that is in test.php is:
print "Hello world";

The first line prints (Loading $fn),
then NOTHING else. Execution STOPS. Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong? Could it be an obscure setting in Apache or PHP (I did check php.ini, and allow_url_fopen is set to ON)?

Anon

Full source can be viewed
http://lhs2001.danwatt.dyndns.org/pagegen.php3?VIEWSOURCE=1

and I am running Win2k Advanced Server with Apache 1.3.20, and PHP 4.0.6 (could THAT be the problem? The other machine was running 4.0.2 I believe)

rrijnders

Make sure that your version of PHP was compiled or is configured with URL enabled fopen() wrapers. Also, make sure that the URL you are specifying can be DNS resolved by your server, otherwise your script will "hang" until DNS times out.

-- Rich

Anon

Well, doing
print_r(file("http://www.yahoo.com/index.html"));
works, and so does opening up ANY html doc on my server, even with the domain name resolved.
I TRIED just setting it to 127.0.0.1, instead of going out to look up the DNS, and it doesnt work. It seems to be a problem when I call up a PHP file on the same system

Anon

I COULD do virtual() or require() or include(), but the problem is I need the string dumped by the php3 file, NOT a direct output of it. (IE: The template builds off of strings then outputs.)

Anon

I should slow down and just put everything in one post, sorry...

Um, I did this
print_r(file("http://127.0.0.1/test.php3"));
on a line on its own, and this is what I got:

Warning: php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname failed in e:\web\lhs2001\pagegen.php3 on line 138

Warning: file("http://127.0.0.l:8081/test.php3") - No error in e:\web\lhs2001\pagegen.php3 on line 138

I had seen the last error ("No error") a few times before, but now I am getting the gethostbyname error, though I am not directly calling that function.

This is just getting odd for me. Everything seems to be compiled fine, and the settings are all correct. Maybe I should just try and older build of PHP.

rrijnders

Try using the gethostbyname() function directly in a test script. Try once with an internal address and once with an external address and see what errors you get.

-- Rich