How to include a trusted php script

buzz

My last question is finished, so yet another one to come :-)

Lets say i have a php script running on my server which draws a table (from <table> up to </table>) with some stuff in it. Why can't somebody else include this file on his server in a way like:

<html>
<body>
trying to get the script
<?PHP
include "http://www.domian.com/script.php";
?>
maybe finished
</body>
</html>

Sure this page is saved as for example test.php.

Normally my php has to parse the script and send the parsed output back to his server or am i stupid?

His server tolds something like can't include because of the include path is set to "./.." on his server. Don't know really.

Maybe this could be because of safe mode of php?

Any suggestions?

suntra

First, read this :
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

« If "URL fopen wrappers" are enabled in PHP (which they are in the default configuration), you can specify the file to be included using an URL (via HTTP or other supported wrapper - see Appendix I for a list of protocols) instead of a local pathname. If the target server interprets the target file as PHP code, variables may be passed to the included file using an URL request string as used with HTTP GET. This is not strictly speaking the same thing as including the file and having it inherit the parent file's variable scope; the script is actually being run on the remote server and the result is then being included into the local script. »

buzz

Hi suntra.

Thanks for your answer at all but i do read these documents before i ask a question, hopefully good enough. After reading this one again, i can't find anything to solve my problem. The only thing is that on windows systems the include function did not work below php version x.y. I hope the meaning of windows systems is to not use iis. If it is meant in this way i have to say that both hosts (mine and the other one which is trying to execute the script) are running apache. So, no solution found or is there anything, my eyes did not catch?! Another solution is that my english is not good enough cause i'm german :-). In this case it would be nice if you correct me.