external includes :)

[macg_love]

Hello,

is it possible in PHP to include a function from a different server, e.g. a call to a function that handles the database access and query and takes a query as an argument and returns the result from the query to the calling page which is located on a different server than the file processing the query.

Thanks,
zeitgeist

[jpmoriarty]

From the manual :

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.

Warning
Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.