distant include

[Anon]

hi,

i'm trying to use include (or require) on a file located on another host in my network...

include ("<hostname>//includes/test.php3");
doesn't work...

any idea?

thanks in advance

[Anon]

This is explained in the manual.

You must have "URL fopen wrappers" enabled.

You must specify protocol in addition to hostname, which you did not in your example.

Big caveat: The included PHP file will be processed remotely, not locally (assuming the remote HTTP server is PHP-enabled).

If you need to have it processed locally, consider NFS-mounting the directories. I suppose you also could use fopen(), read the file into a buffer using FTP, and eval() the buffer.

[Anon]

I suppose you also could use fopen(), read the file into a
buffer using FTP, and eval() the buffer

Shouldn't that say "read the file using fgets()"? If you can fopen()
a file, where's the need for FTP?

[Anon]

If you fopen("ftp://myserver/myfile.php", "r") you can fetch the raw php code (using fgets, or fread, etc), then eval the retrieved code.