php ?

[dscikate]

how do i use php to include a text file that's off my site?

 

[wm2k1]

i believe u could only include files that are local to the server

 

[Dusty]

You can include the text from a file from a remote server the same way you can from a local one, i.e. <?php include="http://remote/header.txt"; ?> would work just the same as <?php include "./header.txt"; ?>. If you were talking about including something you actually intend to be parsed along with the script, though, you can't do that.

 

[wm2k1]

nope...just test it myself to make sure, only could do it locally

it display when written for local, but can't display when the real internet address for the file was used

 

[Dusty]

Sure it works. If it doesn't on your server, make sure allow_url_fopen hasn't been disabled.

 

[dscikate]

i tried that first just changing the code to the url i was trying to link and it had a out put of a error message

 

[dscikate]

what i really want to do is link a image
the code for the image is in the text file

 

[wm2k1]

allow_url_fopen = On

not from the look of php.ini

 

[dscikate]

how can i do that?

 

[Dusty]

Are you trying to do something like this?

$img=fopen("http://server/image.gif","rb");
header("Content-type: image/gif");
fpassthru($img);
fflush();

 

[Dusty]

not from the look of php.ini

I don't know what to tell you, Wm2k1. It works for me and it's described in the PHP manual.