How to get HTML string given a hard link

[amela]

Hi,
I am new to PHP programming and I'm not sure if it is possible to do what I'm trying, but here is my question:

I'm using fast templates and in my template I have:
{TOP}
< .....rest of the template here...>
{BOTOM}

Now, {TOP} and {BOTTOM} are supposed to contain HTML code that generates top and bottom of the page ( same for all pages ). In my php code I'd like to do:
$tpl->assign (TOP, html_top_string);
$tpl->assign (BOTTOM, html_bottom_string);

My question is: how do I get html_top_string and html_bottom_string given a hard link (eg. http://..../.../top.html)? Is there a php function that will return me the string?
Include statement does not work in this case.

Thanks.

[Anon]

I'm not sure I understand completely, but are you asking how to access the URL from your script?

If you are, check out fopen(), which can access URL's as well as files.

[amela]

Thanks for the reply.
fopen() works as well as file() and join() (i.e. html_string = join('', file($url));

Mr. Fancy Pants wrote:

I'm not sure I understand completely, but are you asking how to access the URL from your script?

If you are, check out fopen(), which can access URL's as well as files.