Problem with variable

snappy

Hi All

Believe it or not I have a problem with a variable

If I place this code on one sever

<?
$var = "This is a test";
include "http://www.otherserver.com/test.php";
?>

and I place test.php on another server, that has this code

<?
echo $var
?>

Stupid question : Why doesn't this work and how would I get it to work ?

Thanks in advance

justsomeone

All of the following assumes that you can actually use a http URL as input to the include command. I've never tried that.

Is PHP installed on otherserver.com? If it is, then it won't display the PHP it will interpret it. So otherserver.com will run test.php, causing to echo an empty variable, this output will then be read by your calling script, which will just see an empty file.

Options:

Uninstall php from otherserver.com so that it doesn't interpret test.php
Rename test.php to test.txt so that it doesn't get interpreted by otherserver.com
use an ftp connection instead of a http one to access the file, this will prevent it running through otherserver's PHP interpreter.

jkurrle

You have one script on one server and the other script on the other server? I don't see how that could ever work in the first place. Variables are restricted per server on a session basis. You need to send that data from the first server to the other, the second server needs to retrieve the sent data and make use of it.