Shared Includes

[wdglide]

How can I go about sharing includes across different websites?

I will be using an external web host.

My sites use several common includes. I am trying to figure a way to centralize all the common files.

Any thoughts or pointers on this?

[drawmack]

well, include is supposed to be able to retrieve a file given a full URL, but I have yet to get this to work.

[wdglide]

Well I imagine that it could "include" a simple remote html file, but I imagine it would not be able to pull over all the code (.php, etc).

I'm trying to think of a way to have a common (shared) directory on the web server but haven't had any luck yet.

What about some sort of application that synchronizes files across multiple ftp accounts?

[drawmack]

that is possible you could have a database with three tables

tblSites - the websites that are relvent and all their conection information

tblPackages - the packages that are relevant and all their informaiton, include a last updated date.

tblPack2Site - tells the engine which packages belong on which sites

then the script would use the ftp functions of php to update and web site with the most recent version of a package if a package has been updated since the program last ran.

[wdglide]

Wow! I meant like ACME Synchronizer. But I like your idea much better.

I've never explored php's FTP functions (didn't know they had them actually).