[Resolved] [Resolved] inlcude('http://blah.com') and sessions

chucklarge

Hi,
I vaguely remember reading about this problem somewhere but can't find and info now. Ok this is my problem.

Session Variables are not valid when you 'include' a file with 'http:// .. ..' when it is a relative url, they work fine.

index.php

<?
session_start();
$_SESSION['username'] = 'chuck';
$username = $_SESSION['username'];
echo 'index username : ' . $username;
include('includetest.php');
?>

includetest.php

<?
session_start();
$username = $_SESSION['username'];
echo 'include username : ' . $username;
?>

Ok those work fine, but if i change index.php to this

<?
session_start();
$_SESSION['username'] = 'chuck';
$username = $_SESSION['username'];
echo 'index username : ' . $username;
include('http://blah.com/includetest.php');
?>

The Session Variables no longer are valid.

The reason I need to use 'http:// ......' is because i am building a template page which can be in any folder and I don't want to manually change all the relative links for each page, kinda defeats the template purpose.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about fixing this or a better method for my templates?

Thanks,
Chuck

nemesis1931

I guess it would depend on what server your using, but my site is on a Linux box with Apache web server-- to include files I dont use the URL but rather the folder system as is understood by the server..

for example the relative root path of files for user01 on a linux box might be something like this

home/user01/public_html/

in which case you have to include the files using the actual path as understood by linux and not the url as understood by apache or a web browser

get what im saying?

you can even so so far as to include files that are not in the public_html directory that way only the system can retrieve those files..

i.e.

home/user01/inc_files/

I created a portal system using includes -- and I have same scenario -- namely including files from any location..

to faciliate this I created a simple global constants file and defined a ROOT constant

#globals.php
 define('SYS_ROOT',"home/user01/");
 define('LOGIN_MODULE',ROOT."inc_files/login.mod.php");

so now whenever i want to include the Login module on any page I just include the global constants and

 include(LOGIN_MODULE);

this way I can include it without worrying about relative paths..