include/require with full http-path wont work

jbegham

Hello group,

I get a fatal error if I try the following:

require ("http://myserver/mydir/include_file.inc");

If I only use

require("include_file.inc");

it works fine.

Isn't it possible to address the include-path as described in the first version?

TIA
John

Weedpacket

Well, my first question is; why would you want to? For one thing, doing it via http runs the file on the other server, and require()s the result. For another, do you really want your scripts falling over with a fatal error just because the other server is down?

jbegham

Hello Weedpacket,

the situation is a bit different. I use the include for a "general" header.inc file, where I have placed other includes (.classes).

Because I want to use the same header.inc file in both sub and main directorys it is neccessary to put this absolute path instead of a relative one because otherwise you will get a file not found error in sub dirs because of the missing ../file.class.inc

Kind regards
John

Weedpacket

Well then, shouldn't you be using a filepath and not something that looks more like a URL? In other words, what's with the http://?

And have you considered putting your library includes in a directory and putting that directory on your php.ini's include_path?

jabba_29

Why don't you user somthing like:

/users/username/www/includes/

or however your webserver is set up?

VoiD

use $DOCUMENT_ROOT. I also had this problem, since I wanted to include a file in the include folder from different folders in the site (not just the root).

<?
include("$DOCUMENT_ROOT/include/includefile.php");
?>

Works like a charm, and the variables that have been set can also be used in the included files, this is NOT possible when using the full http path.

And ofcourse, require would work exactly the same 🙂

jbegham

Thanks VoiD,

this was the solution I needed!

Cheers,
John