Filegetcontents and require

teguh123

What's the different?

Also, is it possible to use file_get_contents or require_once to get a file in the same server but from a different domain or username?

bradgrafelman

teguh123 wrote:
What's the different[sic]?

Read the manual pages for [man]file_get_contents/man and [man]require/man... you'll see that one simply returns the contents of a file while one executes the file.

teguh123 wrote:
Also, is it possible to use file_get_contents or require_once to get a file in the same server but from a different domain or username?

If the server has read access to the file.

teguh123

Neither doesn't work though.

I've tried.

So I in http://domain1.com I have an index.php file

The index.php file has require_once ("test.php")

No problem.

But when I move test.php to http://domain2.com

I change the require statement to

require_once ("~username2/public_html/test.php")

This is what I got

Warning: main(~username2/public_html/test.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/ursername1/public_html/index.php on line 15

Fatal error: main() [function.require]: Failed opening required '~username2/public_html/test.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/username1/public_html/index.php on line 15

And yes file ~username2/public_html/test.php exist.

I can ssh, type more ~username2/public_html/test.php and it would work perfectly fine. I also set permission to 777 on the file.

teguh123

What's ironic is I can use file_get_contents to access the file by accessing http://domain2.com/test.php just fine. It's just that this will increase bandwith meter.

Let's forget about the difference between require_once and file_get_contents. I know the different knows how to addapt it. I am just wondering is there a way for a php program in one account to access a file in another account.

The obvious way is to use file_get_contents(http://anotherdomain.com/thefile)

But that's the way to access a file from another server. The fact that the 2 are in the same server should though different account should provides a way to achieve it without going through the http interface

teguh123

Maybe I should state this more clearly.

Say you have 100 domains. Say those 100 domains use the same PhP code. Say there are a bunch of functions or library that you want to be available to all 100 domains that you created.

One way to do it is to copy the PhP code to all 100 domains. That's how wordpress work right. There is the same code for all wordpress installation.

However, when you want to change code you will have to change code to all 100 domains.

Now, if all 100 domains can access the code in one domain that'll be more manageable.

bradgrafelman

teguh123 wrote:
But when I move test.php to http://domain2.com

I change the require statement to

require_once ("~username2/public_html/test.php")

Then there's your problem. As the error message suggests, your path is wrong.

You're trying to access a file at /home/username1/public_html/~username2/public_html/test.php since you're using a relative path. Notice the problem?

Either use an absolute path (probably the best option, since you know the username and whatnot), or use a correct relative path.

EDIT: Also, please don't create multiple threads for the same topic.