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johanpw
johanpw

Reputation: 647

PHP include from external server

I want to use the PHP "include" function to include a file from a different domain than my main script, and use variables from the main script in the included file.

Something like this:

index.php:

<?php
  $hello = "Hello";
  $world = "World";
  include "http://example.com/myfile.php";
?>

myfile.php (from a different domain)

<?php
  echo $hello . " " . $world;
  // Should output "Hello World"
?>

Will this work, or does it depend on the server settings/permissions?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4138

Answers (3)

johanpw
johanpw

Reputation: 647

As several answers point out, allow_url_include has to be enabled, and that's not an option in my case. I ended up doing this:

index.php:

<?php
  $hello = "Hello";
  $world = "World";
  echo file_get_contents("http://example.com/myfile.php?hello=$hello&world=$world");
?>

myfile.php (from a different domain)

<?php
  $hello = $_GET['hello'];
  $world = $_GET['world'];
  echo $hello . " " . $world;
  // Should output "Hello World"
?>

It works fine for what I need it to do, but I'm sure the solution can be improved.

Upvotes: 1

l&#39;L&#39;l
l&#39;L&#39;l

Reputation: 47169

It will work depending on whether or not allow_url_include is enabled in php.ini. Otherwise you can try the hacky way of doing it by replacing the current include line with:

echo file_get_contents('http://example.com/myfile.php');

Upvotes: 1

John Conde
John Conde

Reputation: 219804

From the manual:

Using remote files

As long as allow_url_fopen is enabled in php.ini, you can use HTTP and FTP URLs with most of the functions that take a filename as a parameter. In addition, URLs can be used with the include, include_once, require and require_once statements (since PHP 5.2.0, allow_url_include must be enabled for these). See Supported Protocols and Wrappers for more information about the protocols supported by PHP.

Upvotes: 1

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