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Reputation: 4101

Magento - include/require php file within phtml template file

In one of my magento template phtml files I am trying to include a seperate php file. When I include it I get nothing outputted and when i use require instead I get the following error

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'http://www.site.co.uk/dir/test.php'
(include_path='/home/usr/public_html/app/code/local:/home/usr/public_html/app/code/community:/home/usr/public_html/app/code/core:/home/usr/public_html/lib:.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/usr/public_html/app/design/frontend/theme/edits/template/review/product/view/list.phtml on line 30

The first line of the error shows the correct url path and when i go to it directly it works - it just doesn't like being included/required from the phtml template page.

I've tried the following in the phtml file (using magento's BaseURL, absolute path and the relative path):

<?php 
$root = Mage::getBaseUrl(Mage_Core_Model_Store::URL_TYPE_WEB);
require/include ($root.'dir/test.php');
?>

<?php 
require/include ('http://www.site.co.uk/dir/test.php');
?>

<?php 
require/include ('../../../../../../../../../dir/test.php');
?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5956

Answers (2)

MTM
MTM

Reputation: 919

Instead of Mage::getBaseUrl use $root = Mage::getBaseDir();

Upvotes: 2

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360572

require('http://....') is going to (if it's enabled) do a full-blown HTTP request to the specified URL. Since it's a URL, that webserver is going to EXECUTE the php script and send you its output.

If you're trying to actually load the CODE of that test.php, e.g. the raw un-executed PHP, then you cannot use an http request. The remote server has NO idea that the http request is actually from PHP and is coming from in include(). It'll just blindly run that script and send over the output.

You'd need to (say) rename the remote file to test.txt, so that the webserver sends it out as-is, and then that text will be executed as PHP code on YOUR server.

And as far as the other paths go, if your $root is something like:

 /home/sites/example.com/html

then the require is going to be looking for

 /home/sites/example.com/html/dir/test.php

Is there a dir subdir inside whatever your site's $root is?

Upvotes: 0

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