Including a remote file. Not working!

[geenee]

Ok i'm tring to include a file in a page, it's the simplist of things but it's not working... I don't know much PHP so sorry if I'm overlooking something obvious.

 

allow_url_include is set to On by the way

 

the code i've got is:

 

<?php

include ("http://www.myurl.com/test.html");

?>

 

Includes work fine with local files, I've asked someone at my hosting company and they say it should be working fine so I really just dunno what to do

 

Thanks

[Andy82]

Hey,

 

Im a newbie too. The PHP Manual show here http://uk2.php.net/include/ in Example 3 that you should be using single quotes.

 

// Works.
include 'http://www.example.com/file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

 

Andy

[wildteen88]

IMO include/require should only be used for including PHP source code. For static content such as HTML you should use file_get_contents

 

Also instead of posting "its not working" can you explain what you actually mean by that. Like are you getting an error or blank page etc. If you're getting errors then post them here in full.

[geenee]

Sorry about the lack of specificness...

 

There's no error messages, the output stops where the included file should be. So the code is being read and when the include statement is read, it just stops.

 

I haven't come across file_get_contents before, I will try to use it and see what happens.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You are probably getting a fatal runtime error. Add the following two lines immediately after your first opening <?php tag -

 

ini_set ("display_errors", "1");
error_reporting(E_ALL);

[geenee]

I've tried the single and double quotes and it doesn't seem to make any difference.

 

First I tried adding the code to enable error reporting, this didn't do anything, still just nothingness when the code starts.

 

Then I tried the collowing code:

 

$file = "test.html";

file_get_contents($file);

 

This didn't work at all which seems odd (the script just stops when it gets to that bit of code), maybe there's an error in the syntax, I've looked at some examples and followed them.

 

Any more help would be greatly appreciated, thank you

[wildteen88]

Your using file_get_contents incorrectly.

 

Your code should be

$file = "test.html";

echo file_get_contents($file);

[nicob]

Ok i'm tring to include a file in a page, it's the simplist of things but it's not working... I don't know much PHP so sorry if I'm overlooking something obvious.

 

allow_url_include is set to On by the way

 

the code i've got is:

 

<?php

include ("http://www.myurl.com/test.html");

?>

 

Includes work fine with local files, I've asked someone at my hosting company and they say it should be working fine so I really just dunno what to do

 

Thanks

try this

<?php
if ($fh = fopen('http://www.myurl.com/test.html', 'r') ) {
    fpassthru($fh);
    fclose($fh);
}
?>

[geenee]

Ok thanks for the help, I've managed to get it working by simply using:

 

echo file_get_contents('http://www.url.com/file.html');

 

Not sure why include() wasn't getting the remote file... I'm running PHP 5.2.6 for anyone who's interested

 

Thanks again!