[FX.php List] Accessing a php file residing on an external server

[Troy Meyers]

Jonathan,

Perhaps you could use fsockopen() to retrieve the file contents as HTML, then html_entity_decode() to clean that up into normal text, then write that to a local PHP file on the fly, which you could then include? Or maybe there's a PHP function that will "execute" PHP text that's in a variable. I don't know if there is.

-Troy



> This might be a pure PHP problem or an Apache problem, but it affects 
> my fx.php project...
> 
> Is there are trick to doing an include for a file residing on an 
> external server?
> 
> I use this in the target page:
> 
> require('http://000.000.000.000/test.php');
> 
> echo $value;
> 
> The file test.php has a single line as follows:  $value = "Hello
> World";
> 
> echo $value produces no results at all.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Remote server is OS X Server 10.2 running Php 5
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jonathan