Link to a script

piersk

I've had an idea for a site, but I need to be able to remotely link to a script on another site.

You can do this with JavaScript like this:
<script src="http://www.clanbase.com/cbrank.php?cid=cid&lid=lid&type=js"> </script> (please not that this is the way clanbase does it), but when I tried doing the same with a simple hello world script, I got an error that said

A Runtime Error has occured
Do you wish to debug?

Line:1
Error:Expected ";"

Just in case anyone wanted to see it, the html file was this:

<html>
<body>
<script src="http://piers/hci/test.php"></script>
</body>
</html>

and the php file was this:

<?php 

print "Hello world";

?>

Can anyone help?

mogster

Do you want to include the script in your page?

Perhaps you should use include("file"); or use the php fopen("file") function to do this.
I'm not sure, but it seems it treats the src'ed file as javascript in your example.

knutm 😉

evo4ever

Im aware this script call exists:

...but ive never used it.

Try this:

<script language="php" src="http://piers/hci/test.php">
</script>

piersk

The reason I want to do this is because I want to be able to run php scripts on a page that doesn't have PHP hosting. That's why the include() wouldn't work.

<update>The "language=" attribute didnt work. Anyone got any other ideas?</update>

evo4ever

Then what you are trying to do is not possible. When the php gets included via <script> what is going to intepret it?

piersk

But surely it MUST be possible, since clanbase has done it... Don't suppose anyone here has worked on clanbase/similar sites have they?

EviL_CodE

When you're including <script src="...."> files you are actually including client-side scripts.

In the remotely hosted client-side script, you can have PHP within that, however you will need to output a client-side script!

Here's a quick example;

Remotely hosted script: (dyn-jscript.php)

<?php
if($_GET['page'] =='news') {
echo "document.write(\"This is the news page...\")";
}
else {
echo "document.write(\"This is another page...\")";
}
?>

Static html page: (dyn.html)
<html>
...
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="dyn-jscript.php?page=news"></script>
...
</html>

This will output "This is the news page..."

Good luck.

piersk

Yes it did. Thank you very much.