includes to "top and tail" a webpage called from another location

rupertbj

I have 2 includes (header.inc and footer.inc). I want to have these included at the top and bottom of a webpage, but the main body is called from another server altogether - run by a third party company.

Please can anyone give me a solution - I'm fed up with the bloody frames I've been forced to use up til now!!!

Thanks in advance.

Rupert

DigitalExpl0it

the main body is offsite? on or site running the site off two web servers?

I dont think require() and include() will use files from other servers since it doesnt have permissions to see nor read the file.

rupertbj

But can't I somehow have a webpage hosted on my server that uses the include() function to call header.inc and footer.inc and then use someother method on that page to display the other page, hosted elsewhere, in between header.inc and footer.inc?

There's got to be a way!

DigitalExpl0it

frames

diego25

If your PHP version is greater than 4.3.0, then include() and require() will support remote files. That means you can do
include("http://www.serverB.com/page.html");
but ONLY if your PHP version is greater than 4.3.0

Diego

rupertbj

Originally posted by DigitalExpl0it
frames

No - no frames thanks - using them at the moment, but don't like them!!!

Weedpacket

Prior to 4.3, you can use [man]readfile[/man] to fetch the header and footer, and echo them directly to the page.

Note that whichever of these methods is being used, because the header and footer are on another server, if they're PHP scripts they'll be run on that other server, and what you'll receive is the resulting output.

rupertbj

Originally posted by Weedpacket
Prior to 4.3, you can use [man]readfile[/man] to fetch the header and footer, and echo them directly to the page.

Note that whichever of these methods is being used, because the header and footer are on another server, if they're PHP scripts they'll be run on that other server, and what you'll receive is the resulting output.

Thanks, but i only have control of the server with header.inc and footer.inc. The other server is run by a third party to which I subscribe. I have a URL to point to and I would like to pull the output from there (a form) onto my page while still running all the processes of that page (from the URL) on the third party server.

I was looking in the manual and tried a few things with readfile, but to no avail - but that could be my poor scripting!

Any ideas?