PHP Includes & Passing Variables

[cianclarke]

What I want to do is the following:

 

<?php

include 'http://www.cianclarke.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=recentImage|recentImage|recentImage|&g2_show=title';

?>

However this doesn't work with dreamhost, as they won't allow http:// in the include - ie no remote includes (even though in this case it's actually local)...

 

So instead I tried this:

 

<?php

include 'gallery/main.php';

$g2_view=imageblock.External;

$g2_blocks=recentImage|recentImage|recentImage|;

$g2_show=title;

?>

 

However this still doesn't work - it just displays main.php, and doesn't seem to include the above. I also tried using cURL (some copy-pasted code which I didn't understand, needless to say this didn't work).

 

So, what I'm trying to do is include this page:

http://www.cianclarke.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=recentImage|recentImage|recentImage|&g2_show=title

 

Can anybody tell me how I do this in PHP - I need to be able to pass these variables so they work.

It might also be worth mentioning I'm trying to do this in Joomla on a static page in the WYSIWYG TinyMCE, however I'll worry about the problems this presents when I get to this stage!

Thanks

[tarun]

Just Include This:

 

gallery/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=recentImage|recentImage|recentImage|&g2_show=title

[cianclarke]

Doesn't work - then it's looking for a file called "gallery/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=recentImage|recentImage|recentImage|&g2_show=title" - instead of doing what it should be doing, i.e. looking for gallery/main.php.

[kenrbnsn]

The include statement is used to include PHP statements into your script, when you try to include a file referenced by a URL, the only thing that will be included is the output of the script -- usually not what you intended.

 

Did you try:

<?php
$g2_view=imageblock.External;
$g2_blocks=recentImage|recentImage|recentImage|;
$g2_show=title;
include 'gallery/main.php';
?>

 

Ken

[cianclarke]

Nope, it still just includes main.php without the recent images block I'm afraid, as if it was including main.php rather than main.php?imageblock.External&g2_blocks=recentImage|recentImage|recentImage|&g2_show=title

 

Thanks for the help so far