how can i include "http://212.37.171.9"

bluey2

in the include function
for example, if i know the IP of the page, but i don;t know what it's called, how can i include it?
for example,

<?
include "xyz";
?>

knowing that XYZ = "http://212.37.171.9"
how can it work? can i include an IP Address instead of a name of a file?

philipolson

Seems pretty crazy but sure, try:

$ip = '212.37.171.9';

include "http://{$ip}";

bluey2

no it didn;t work :-(
it gave me the following Warning :-(

Warning: Failed opening 'http://212.37.171.8' for inclusion (include_path='') in c:/program files/merlin desktop/apache/htdocs/01/ukall website/login.php on line 67

can anybody tell me what to do plz?
URGENT :-(

philipolson

Oh, you can't use include() for urls in windows.

bluey2

oh :-(
so there's NO other way???:-((((
does anybody know?
PLEASE HELP!!!!!
thanksssss

shadedecho

my suggestion is to follow what this page says:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php

It talks about how fopen can actually be used to open a url-based file for reading (or writing). You could read the file that the URL returns using fread, and "echo" what you read in back out to your output stream (PHP output). would look something like this:

$fp = fopen("http://197.67.20.23","r");
$file = fread($fp,filesize("http://....."));
echo $file;

philipolson

Use file(), it's the simplest:

$html = implode('', file("http://{$ip}/"));

Notes regarding the last post ... you cannot use filesize() on urls, nor can you be in fopen write mode. Now, if you don't need this as a variable then you can use the following (it'll directly output the html)

readfile("http://{$ip}/");