Puzzled

fizzwizz

I have been using include() to change the content of a web page by creating a template then altering the page content by including different pages

eg
include("pages/".$select.".php");

I have used this technique successfully on many websites but because several pages are all the same (eg a contact form) I decided to keep them in one place and reference them from each sites.
eg
include("http://www.mydomain.com/commonpages/".$select.".php");

The problem is that the values of any variables in the included page aren't passed to the mother page. (eg sql queries)

Is there a way I can make it so pages on another domain can be included as if they were on the same domain?

Thanks ... Fizz

bubblenut

Not across different sites like that, no. When you grab the files accross http like that they're being served up by the webserver and the webserver will be set up to pass .php files through the php pre-processor, therefore all you'll get back is the output from php. In order to get the source you will need to save them as something other than .php but that wouldb be very dangerous because then anyone could pick up your source and see all your variables (prehapse sensitive ones like db username and password :eek: )

HTH
Bubble

fizzwizz

What a shame.

I wonder if putting these into a database would work.

if I echo out a php statement kept in a db is it executed?

Thanks again ... Fizz

bubblenut

You'll have to [man]exec()[/man] it.

tsinka

Hi bubblenut,

I think the function of choice is eval, exec executes a given shell command. 😉

Thomas

fizzwizz

Thanks ... the eval() one does the trick so I may load these pages into sql and call them from each site. Not quite what I wanted because I wanted to be able to edit and upgrade the features of each page periodically using my Dreamweaver, but I can work around this.

Thanks again

bubblenut

Originally posted by tsinka
Hi bubblenut,

I think the function of choice is eval, exec executes a given shell command. 😉

Thomas

DOH!!

drawmack

you could use [man]fsockopen[/man] and read the page from the other server then execute it on the local machine.

bubblenut

On which port though?

drawmack

Originally posted by bubblenut
On which port though?

good question - maybe the ftp functions are more appropriate.