including a file from another server?

VooDooRT

I tried the obvious include('http://www.blot.com/file.php'); but of course it doesn't work.

Thoughts? Is it even possible?

Damien_Buttler

You cannot get PHP code from another website via HTTP because it is processed server side. You are only able to get the HTML output.

VooDooRT

Ideas on how to retrieve a variable from another server then?

osusano

why dont u try to make another script on the other server so that once that script parsed it will go to another site and call the page with the arrays given via url and parse it again

vaska

this worked for me...beautifully...

<? readfile('http://www.pathtothefile.com/thefile.php?id=blah'); ?>

i don't know what the security implications are...

good luck...vaska

VooDooRT

It's getting the file, but it's not reading the variable.

Here is what I have so far:

readfile('http://www.fuziontek.com/ctdb.php');
echo("$bdpass");	
if ($_GET['pass'] == '$bdpass'){

I'm trying to grab a simple variable from the file ctdb.php called $bdpass, but it's not grabbing it. $bdpass is set as NULL....

In the file, it only has the following code:

<?php
$bdpass == 'pass';
?>

vaska

hmmm...

the other thing i did...for the readfile that i put onto a site...i actually created a completely new file that did exactly what i needed...changed the formatting some and edited some of the functions...

you might consider just editing down that file...changing the name...and then readfile something less complicated and easier to deal with...

however, i don't completely understand what you are trying to do...so, i'm not sure if that will work...

good luck...vaska

VooDooRT

All I'm trying to do is grab a simple $variable. I think what you're suggesting is a little more complicated than I need.

Basically, I'm trying to write a way into a certain script that will be located on another server. If I enter a variable with the correct password (which is stored on a file on MY server) it lets me in. But I don't want to store the password in the file itself because I won't be able to change it nearly as easily. This is basically an admin access to a script in case they screw something up.

I'm trying to grab a simple $variable from file_1.php and populate $variable to file_2.php.

VooDooRT

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clandestine555

you're trying to access a script on another server that is running the script. therefore the other server is possibly using the variable for instance it's evaluating it on it's end, but not passing it to you.

server A:
requests a page on server B:
http://www.somedomain.com/show_variable.php?displayvariable=5

server B: runs request to display variable #5 and outputs
qwerty

server A: receives variable, and stores it or does whatever because the output would be in the variable

for instance
$stealpassword = readfile('http://www.somedomain.com/password.php?revealpass=admin');

server A:
echo $stealpassword;

code on server B: would have to interpret revealpass switch/variable and have register globals set to ON.
also it would have to know what to do when revealpass was set, such as echo admin's password?

that's just a scenario that came to mind when you mentioned what you're wanting to do, if i'm wrong try to be more descriptive of what you're wanting to do, and we'll see what we can tell you.

clandestine

HalfaBee

You can't retreive variables from a URL.

Why not do the password checking on 'MY server' with the php script and return a result.

<?
//Remote script

ob_start();
include( password_check.php?pass=abc );
$var=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
?>


<?
//password_check.php

if ( $_GET['pass']=='MyPassword' )
  echo 'GOOD';
else
  echo 'BAD';
?>

VooDooRT

Still not working worth a crap...ugh...

The file I want to READ the variable...

readfile('http://www.fuziontek.com/ctdb.php');
 global $today, $today2, $fontString, $myrow, $bdpass;
echo("$bdpass");	
if ($_GET['pass'] == '$bdpass'){

The file WITH the variable...

<?
$bdpass == 'pass';
?>

I want to access it like this:

www.fuziontek.com/file_that_reads_the_variable.php?pass=insert_password_here

brianu

Hi there

PHP:

<?
$bdpass == 'pass';
?>

THe code above checks if the value of $bdpass is 'pass' it doesn't set it.

If you try this

<?php
$dbpass = 'pass';
?>

You might have more luck
NB ONE = sign

VooDooRT

pass IS the password.

It'd be the same as:

<?
$bdpass = '345hjg2345khg2345';
?>

VooDooRT

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