Remote function

[wooster]

I have a function: function login($username, $pass) { code }

This function is in a folder 'remote' in my apache folder, so the file that the function is in is http://host/remote/functions.php

I want to call the function in php from another computer - how do i do this, i have tried

require("http://host/remote/functions.php");

but it comes up with an error

[ednark]

whenever you request a webpage you actually get the rendered version

this file...

<?php # functions.php

function login( $params ) 
{
     /// do login
}

?>

when asked for via http://site/functions.php

renders to ... nothing

if you were allowed to do remote includes... then you could simple include my conf file with my database username and password... and print them out to your screen...

so i don't think php has the capability you want...

you could make a seperate file that prints out valid php... but this would make your source publically acessible...

example:

im_remote.php:

<?php

echo "
<?php
    \$remotefilename = __FILE__;
?>
";

?>

index.php:

<?php
    include 'http://domain/path/to/remote/include/im_remote.php';
    $localfilename = __FILE__;
    print "<pre>";
    print_r($localfilename);
    print "<br />";
    print_r($remotefilename);
    print "</pre>";
?>