fopen and urls

[dhodge]

When using fopen with a php url then doing an fread on that resource...do I get the actual file with php code or the parsed php page. I would assume the parsed page but want to make sure.

[devinemke]

you get the actual file with php code (unparsed)

[dhodge]

really? intresting...so you can basically rip off peoples code as long as they have open_urls enabled

Could you suggest a method to actually get the parsed version. I have to site search algorithms one using fopen and urls and the other just opening the files on the server. The fopen one is probably 3-5x slower.

[devinemke]

Originally posted by dhodge
Could you suggest a method to actually get the parsed version.

[man]include[/man]

[drew010]

if you use [url]http://....[/url] in an fopen call, it returns parsed php code, or for that matter parsed perl/asp/cfm etc code. the fopen url wrappers just give you a shortcut for making an http request to the remote server. its not much different that you using fsockopen to the remote site and issuing a standard GET request just like your browser.

using fopen is a lot slower than including a local file because it initializes sockets as well as fetch the file from a remote server.

[dhodge]

alright well that I actually was using the [url]http://[/url] protcol in the fopen. So I have the parsed client code. Thanks all.