Reading File from Same server

Question

I want to read a PHP file located on the same server as the script. Yet, I want to read it as if it is from another server so that it views the HTML output of the file.

But when I read the file using file_get_contents() I just get the PHP Code.

NOTE: if this helps, I`m printing the contents of the file to fckEditor.

Answer 1

use curl

function get_web_page( $url )
{
    $options = array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
        CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
        CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "spider", // who am i
        CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
    );

    $ch      = curl_init( $url );
    curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
    $content = curl_exec( $ch );
    $err     = curl_errno( $ch );
    $errmsg  = curl_error( $ch );
    $header  = curl_getinfo( $ch );
    curl_close( $ch );

    $header['errno']   = $err;
    $header['errmsg']  = $errmsg;
    $header['content'] = $content;
    return $header;
}

$x=get_web_page('http://yourserver/the_script.php');

echo $x["content"];

Answer 2

You don't need to read it, just include it using include(), for example:

$includefile="path/to/file.php";
if (file_exists($includefile)) 
    include($includefile);

EDIT:

if you need to assign the output to a variable, use ob_start() and ob_get_clean()

ob_start();
include($includefile);
$out = ob_get_clean();

Looking at the FCKeditor site, you would use it like this:

$FCKeditor->Value = $out;