parsing a php file without spawning http

[Anon]

i've been using a discount barebones host for one of my dev. sites. everything has been good, up until now.

yesterday they turned off internal http requests, because too many people were using them for file includes

i built a cms though that is centered around template .php files -- with admin scripts that read them via http and output to .html when updated

$file_url = "http://mydomain.com/index_dynamic.php";  

$grabbed_file = file($file_url);      

while (list($key, $value) = each ($grabbed_file)) { $writeme .= $value."\n"; }                     

$fp = fopen("../index.html", "w"); fwrite ($fp, $writeme); fclose($fp);

well, now this doesn't work. and i can't seem to find anything in the manual to give me a workaround to readin/parse the .phps so i can write them as html.

anyone here have advice?

[Anon]

Well i'm wondering if you have shell access you can download and install apache on a port that is closed and not a priveliged port (ie, greater than 1024, 8080 should work nicely ;-) then just reset it to connect to the same server on that high port.

that help at all? btw i'm assuming this is a *Nix box...

[Anon]

nah,
its a nix, but no shell access

someone suggested sockets and eval

i'll have to try that.