Including files from other websites

kostis12345

Is it possible to include .php files from other websites?If yes,how?
Thanks in advance,
Constantine

laserlight

Yes, but it probably will not do what you expect. Read the PHP manual on [man]include[/man].

kostis12345

Let's say I have a function in a file in my website and I want to give someone else the ability to use it without giving him the code.if he uses the code below will it work?

<?php
include ('http://website.com/functions/test.php')
blabla("text");//an example function that makes replaces the text entered with "bla bla"
?>

would this return "blabla" or not ?

laserlight

No, unless the output of the included script is a PHP script.

kostis12345

which means?I need to echo php code so that when it is included the output is treated like normal php ?

laserlight

Did you read the PHP manual entry that I linked to?

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 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.