include an absolute path

[Locoboy]

(concerns local WAMP server)

 

How come that I can correctly include a file using:

include ( "vars.php");

and NOT using:

include ( "http://localhost/admin/vars.php");

(path is correct)

 

The file gets included, but the variables defined in vars.php cannot be accessed.

I can tell that vars.php is included because any print command in vars.php will be printed.

 

Does anyone have a clue?

[Jessica]

The manual does.

"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 Appendix M, 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."

http://us2.php.net/include/