FUNCTIONS NOT WORKING when included over FULL URL

Tea_J

Quickly..

i have have functions declared in server php files.. and i always include them on to the pages i will use them in..

then i noticed a big difference...

if i include my functions file by how i always do:

include("scripts/lib/sanitize.php");

this works..

but if i include it using full url

include("http://projects/_scripts/lib/sanitize.php");

functions and variables declared inside sanitize.php doesnt get declared properly.. as i get Fatal error: Call to undefined function: errors down my parent scripts...

is this normal?

ElectricRain

do you need to call the home path instead of the web path if youre doing that? err something like

/home/public_html/projects/_scripts/lib/sanitize.php

or whatever your home path would be?

Tea_J

well actually it's a bit more complex than what you may think.. i kinda simplified that only..

im trying to avoid problems when moving from my windows based development server to my unix based remote server...

so i have defined the following constant in my main included scripts:

define("WEBROOT","http://tea/projects/Whitemansion/www/");

then used it to include:

include(WEBROOT . "_scripts/lib/sanitize.php");

so is this behaviour normal for scripts included over http? or is it just me?

Tea_J

oh wait! hold on..

what's this? Paths for include() does not need to be EXACT??!?!!

here's my directory structure...
www/home.php (my webpage)
www/scripts/feedbacks.php (prints random feedbacks)
www/scripts/lib/sanitize.php (my routines to make html compatible text)

Story:
My home.php includes in itself feedbacks.php in the body where i want to display the feedbacks retrieved from database.

contents:

include("scripts/feedbacks.php");

my feedbacks.php NEEDS sanitize.php for it's internal string routines, hence it has this:

include("scripts/lib/sanitize.php");

my problem is, if i include the feedbacks file on pages that are NOT in www/ i was worried that it will MESS UP my paths in feedbacks.php

so if parent page that includes feedbacks.php in itself is in:
www/subpages/mypage.php

it will call the feedbacks.php via

include("../scripts/feedbacks.php");

dilema is, I THOUGH i needed to edit feedbacks.php, particularly in the include path of sanitize.php such as

include("../scripts/lib/sanitize.php");

but then i found out that i dont need to.. it seems that include function can RELATIVE to the issuing script... hence i need not edit feedbacks.php no matter where i call it in my directory tree.. hmm.. i didnt know this was so..

Installer

Regarding your original question:

A reading of the manual page for include() should clarify things for you. Basically "include('included/file')" and "include('http://included/file')" have very different results. The former imports the actual code of the included file into your script, while the latter "includes" the output of the included script's execution and doesn't import any code. That's why its functions are "undefined" in the including script.

Tea_J

A reading of the manual page for include() should clarify things for you. Basically "include('included/file')" and "include('http://included/file')" have very different results. The former imports the actual code of the included file into your script, while the latter "includes" the output of the included script's execution and doesn't import any code. That's why its functions are "undefined" in the including script.

i see..

focusing on this:

The former imports the actual code of the included file into your script, while the latter "includes" the output of the included script's execution and doesn't import any code.

i can understand why it would retrieve the output of my php instead of the code (OFCOURSE, stupid me! lol).. but is it because my file extensions are php? what if i convert them to *.inc or something that doesnt get executed by php engine??

Installer

Experiment and I think you'll find that would work, as long as the remote server isn't set up to process files with whatever extension. But please dont focus on my words; the manual says it better.