many sites calling in same content from another url using include()

[ldoozer]

Hello, I am trying to roll out about 10 websites that are all the same appart from some area specific information local to the site.

here's my thinking. If i know the majority of the content will be the same over all the sites and I want to keep them all up to date, is it the right way to go bout this using <?php include('http://somedomain/homepage.php'); ?> in each site to call in content from a central area ie another server?

 

 

[mem0ri]

Depends on your personal goals with each of the 10 sites, the performance hit you're willing to take in loading from a separate server (and whether that server is in the same datacenter or across the world will play a factor there), the security settings of each site (some server-configs won't allow remote-file loading), and whether or not you're willing to have all 10 sites go down at once if your 'main' server goes down.

[ldoozer]

Thank you very much for that advise, all really important points. I will look in to those questions and report back.

 

[ldoozer]

Forgot to say, can you suggest an alternative way of sharing content

[rajivgonsalves]

well you can include it the way you specified however to be noted that it will include the output of that script... and not the script code...