include file help

blahstuff86

Hi.
I have my php set up with a tag like this

<?php if (file_exists($id)) { include ($id); } else { print "<center>Error File does not existcenter>"; } ?>

So when I call up http://www.mydomain.com/something/page.php?id=mine.html

So the file mine.html is in the "something" directory meaning people can get to that root file

Is there any way to put mine.html somewhere else and still call it with the same URL http://www.mydomain.com/something/page.php?id=mine.html

How can you alter the php tag to do that?

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
--Andrew

pnoeric

to get id off of the URL you check the $_GET variable; your code might look like this after:

$id = '/path/to/include/directory/'.$_GET['id'];
if (file_exists($id)) { include ($id); } else { print "<center>Error File does not exist </center>"; }

blahstuff86

When I try and call the file now it says

"Fatal error: input in flex scanner failed in /home/blah86/public_html/testdirect/sim/files on line 1"

All I want is so people cant view the raw mine.html file for example and for that to be hidden but when I try

http://www.mydomain.com/testdirect/sim/file.php?id=mine.html

So I want the mine.html to be in the directory files but still be able to call it by http://www.mydomain.com/testdirect/sim/file.php?id=mine.html

Regards,
--Andrew

pnoeric

"input in flex scanner"? Oh jeez, I don't know what that is. Do you understand the code snippet I posted? Do you see where you would change the directory of the include file, so you can have it anywhere on your box, including outside of the Apache web tree?

Weedpacket

That looks like it's coming from PHP's internals: a situation that its lexical scanner can't cope with - a PHP bug, in other words.

But that said, what does the first line of "/home/blah86/public_html/testdirect/sim/files" look like? Huh, isn't that a directory? Why is it trying to read a directory as if it were an ordinary file?