Struggling with external function call

rowifi

My code runs fine if I access the my webpage directly eg : www.xxx.xx.xx/simp/mailrob.php

the file has a function call to send me a mail...

<?
mailme();

function mailme()
{

// working code ...

}

But I want to call it from another php module elsewhere in the web structure .. but it allways return 'undefined function'

... extract.. from calling file:- www.xxx.xx.xx/silent/form.php

include('http://www.xxx.xx.xx/simp/mailrob.php');
mailme();

Note the different directories ... function calling up one folder to top level and back down into different folder ... I thought the include would sort this.. but Im struggling to get it to work.

TIA
Rob

planetsim

Try using the filepath rather than the http path to it.

vividona

planetsim;10899096 wrote:
Try using the filepath rather than the http path to it.

Yes, that is right

include ("silent/form.php");

rowifi

I thought I'd tried that.. but will try again... but don't you mean:-

include('/simp/mailrob.php');

The function I want to call is actually in the simp' folder.

Any differences with single or double quotes in the include.

On a further point..

I had to include a path INSIDE a function before the function would work - if it was simply in the file but outside the function then it didnt work. That seems strange, I would have thought that a top level include line would have scope throughout the file and be visible inside functions in that file as well.

Comments welcomed!
Rob

rowifi

Well using the local path didnt work ....

Warning: main(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/simp/mailrob.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/vhosts/xxxx.co.uk/httpdocs:/tmp) in /var/www/vhosts/xxxx.co.uk/httpdocs/xyz/form.php on line 10

Warning: main(/simp/mailrob.php): failed to open stream: Operation not permitted in /var/www/vhosts/xxxx.co.uk/httpdocs/xyz/form.php on line 10

Warning: main(): Failed opening '/simp/mailrob.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:') in /var/www/vhosts/xxxx.co.uk/httpdocs/xyz/form.php on line 10

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: maillogip() in /var/www/vhosts/xxxx.co.uk/httpdocs/xyz/form.php on line 11

farius

Any differences with single or double quotes in the include.

No, PHP treats quotes and apostrophes the same. HTML on the other hand does not. thus if you do this:

echo "<form name='someName'>";

HTML will not like that. Moreover you can not use double quotes as that would mean you end the string output such (ie: "<form name="someName">"). You can however escape string "<form name=\"someName\">". But that just adds useless typing, it's just better to do:

echo '<form name="someName">';

As for the include("") buisness, you may want to try putting a period in from of the relative path:

include('./simp/mailrob.php');

Regarding the include path within the function itself, two things.

You may want to re-look the way you do that, but if you can't the awnser is:

When you include a file in PHP, it is like the file was hard coded into the calling file. Thus any files that are called without absolute paths ("http://XXX.XXXXX.XXX") ie. Relative paths ("./XXX/XXX.XXX") will be treated as though they are called from the calling file.

This causes all sorts of include errors when calling files that are in files that were called from another script in another directory.

Hope this helps,

Farius