Question about Includes

Anon

Ok, I was wondering if it is possible to include a php file from another server.

Example:

<?php

include('http://www.someserver.net/test.php');

//prints info from test.php file

print $info;

so is that possible? If so what am i doing wrong? If not do i basically have to use fopen to retrieve date from another server?

peace
sean

Anon

You can include like that, but the result is not what you were expecting. If you include a PHP file from another server, your PHP file will include only the output of the other PHP file. Therefore, you can't use variables or functions that are inside the other PHP file. The only way to do what you want, is if the other PHP file generates the code for that, i.e.

test.php:

<?
print "<? $info = 43; ?>";
?>

In that test.php, it prints a PHP statement that sets $info to a value.

Diego

Anon

Subject to the restrictions that are explained on the manual page for include(), you can call a remote URL.

However, if the remote server has PHP installed, you will get the results of a PHP process (probably a block of HTML), not PHP code to be processed by your Web server.