access data set in a remote script

[liveaday]

i have two scripts on two different domains. the remote script sets the array and I would like the local script to read it. how can I do that? I wish to use the remote file set up the data in a format that the local script can read. is there a way to have the local file read the output of the remote file?😕

file remote.php

...
$x = array('a', 'b', 'c');
print_r($x);

file local.php

include('http://....../remote.php')
$remote_array = $x;

print_r($remote_array);

==>displays nothing because $x is not recognized. can u help?

[halojoy]

hi

from this [man]include[/man]

If "URL fopen wrappers" are enabled in PHP (which they are in the default configuration), you can specify the file to be included using a URL (via HTTP or other supported wrapper - see Appendix O, List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a list of protocols) instead of a local pathname. If the target server interprets the target file as PHP code, variables may be passed to the included file using a URL request string as used with HTTP GET. This is not strictly speaking the same thing as including the file and having it inherit the parent file's variable scope; the script is actually being run on the remote server and the result is then being included into the local script.

So it is not as simple as that.
And not the same as include a local file.
I have never tried doing this.
And I would prefer make it impossible to include my files, remotely!
If I can do it ... others can!

See also this special section in the PHP Manual:
Chapter 39. Using remote files
http://php.net/manual/en/features.remote-files.php

🙂

[liveaday]

i know...been through the manual and cant find a way to do this 🙁

i am trying to cache (write) my files remotely and access (read) them locally

[liveaday]

the problem is that i need to do this from 2 different servers. a script on server A will set the array and then i need to read it in another script on server B. Basically i wish to have one server do all the processing and setting of variables (caching)and then have other servers just read/access those variables and display differently. My issue is that i cant communicate data from server to another.

1. set arrays into cache files

2. get file contents based on file creation time

if i do #1 in server A and #2 in server B then i cant get the file creation time in server B and thus need to do #2 in server A also. But then how do i get the variables back to B?

below is what I have and works fine when working in one server. BUT how do i pass the $results_ to a different server??

if ( file_exists($file) && time() < filemtime($file) + $interval ) {
$results = unserialize(file_get_contents($file));
} else {
...processing
$results = array('aa','ss','ddd');
$fp = fopen($file, 'w+') or die("Could not open $file.");
fwrite($fp, serialize($results_));
fclose($fp);

}