including files

[Anon]

hello,
for the sake of including a file into page like a Server Side Include, i understand that you are supposed to sue the include() function. It works great, but is there a way i can make the function include a file that is an actual url? Like instead of haveing to change the include source ex. include(".././files/page.php") is there a way to make it do include("http://www.myurl.com/files/page.php"); ?? it doesnt work with include..is there another fuction for this purpose? thanks

[bdbush]

curl and fopen can do this.
I find fopen to be much faster.

roughly:

$fp = fopen("http://www.something.com/","r");
while(!feof($fp))
{
$buffer = fread($fp,1024);
$output .= $buffer;
}
fclose($fp);

echo $output;

--brian