PHP Include external files

crashpolo

Hi,

Im revisitng some old code and this doesnt work....I gett he following errors now

\\ should resolve a unc path but im a tad rusty on this so ...any ideas ?

Thanks for any pointers

Note we are reading off a unix box so a unc path is needed as the unix box doesnt run a web server

<?php
$file = '\\testsrv\tmp\intake.htm';
$newfile = '\test\test2.php.bak';

if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
echo "failed to copy $file...\n";
}
?>

<?php include '\\testsrv\tmp\intake.htm';?>

PHP Warning: copy(\flexuk\tmp\intake.htm) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\index5.php on line 322 PHP Warning: include(\flexuk\tmp\intake.htm) [function.include]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\index5.php on line 326 PHP Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '\testsrv\tmp\intake.htm' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\index5.php on line 326

crashpolo

I add its a fast cgi php box too ... just a tad confused .. if i can sort this ill be well happy .. ill be working on this all day if anyone wants to msg me

sneakyimp

I've never seen use of unc paths in PHP. Sounds like PHP is complaining about that. Not sure if that will work or not. You may need to map a drive letter onto the UNC path or something. Either that or, because you are trying to perform an operation over a network, you may want to read the docs on [man]copy[/man]. There's some mention of 'fopen wrappers' in there. I know that certain settings in PHP.INI prevent fopen/read/write operations on urls or remote files.

crashpolo

It does work im sure of it I had it working before years ago allow_url etc is set to open I must be missing something either in the ini file or the latest version of php is doing something odd !

So fustrating !

crashpolo

Anyone ?

Shrike

Can you ping the machine name from the box running PHP? If not can you ping the IP address? Could be a routing issue.

crashpolo

yup the unix box replies and use a proper unc path in IE8 for exampel the desired file opens up ...Its soemthing to do with the copy ...

Im testing the copy in a sample file and this produces

<?php

$file = '\\test\tmp\intake.htm';
$newfile = '\test\test2.php.bak';
$test ="testmenow";

echo "Hello World!";

?>
<?php echo $file; ?>

Hello World!\test\tmp\intake.htm

Put a copy into it and

if (!copy($file, $newfile)) {
echo "failed to copy $file...\n";
}

PHP Warning: copy(\test\tmp\intake.htm) [function.copy]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\home_page\testme.php on line 12

Is this a permissions thing ?
Thanks again

Shrike

It could be that you have a read permission on that file/directory, but no write permission?

crashpolo

Turned out i need to re do the IIS permissions and hey presto it worked thanks for the tip off !