[SOLVED] Pulling data from another website

[cliftonbazaar]

I run multiple websites and all the privacy policies are the same.

 

When they were running in ASP I knew how to make one text file and display it on each website - but I don't know how to do it in PHP.

I have tried google but don't actually know how to ask the question

 

The code I have at the moment is

<?PHP INCLUDE ("http://www.cliftonbazaar.com/default/addurl.php"); ?>

but it doesn't display anything.

The addurl.php page that it is trying to include is full of html code.

[Axeia]

try lowercase include, php is nearly always all lowercase with the only exceptions being a couple of global variables I think.

Should that still not work please see http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/php_includes.asp

[jackpf]

URL includes is generally turned off in PHP as it poses a considerable security risk.

 

You could try fopen(), file_get_contents(), and if none of them work, cURL.

[cliftonbazaar]

Thanks for the replies.

 

I did visit w3schools and decided to go with

include C:websites/default/addurl.php

which did the trick.

[Axeia]

You might want to use a relative path instead of an absolute path.

From the PHP file making the request use '../' to move one folder up and using that way navigate to the file you're trying to include.

 

That way if you move your PHP application to another computer (say linux.. which does not have a C drive) your script will still function.