[Rοb]

Hi folks

I am trying to use THIS page as a php include on a website but i cant.

e.g

<?php include "http://oaserv.ath.cx:7668/>Oasiz" ?>

I have viewed properties on that particular page and it says "Type - File" (whatever that means).

Is there any way i can include it on a web page?

If so, how? (or if not, what are my other options i.e ways to get round it)

I hope you brainiacs can help because im stumped

All the best,

Rob

[Luke]

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Hi folks 

I am trying to use THIS page as a php include on a website but i cant.

e.g

<?php include "http://oaserv.ath.cx:7668/>Oasiz" ?>

I have viewed properties on that particular page and it says "Type - File" (whatever that means).

Is there any way i can include it on a web page?

If so, how? (or if not, what are my other options i.e ways to get round it)

I hope you brainiacs can help because im stumped

All the best,

Rob

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well if its not a php file you need to use fopen and fread. Include includes PHP source. It doesnt output HTML source.

Here's an example from php.net:

<?php
$filename = "somefile.txt";
$handle = fopen($filename, "r");
$contents = fread($handle, filesize($filename));
fclose($handle);
?>

http://us2.php.net/m...ction.fopen.php
http://us2.php.net/m...ction.fread.php

[Michael_C]

No, you can include plain text files fine using include.

[Michael_C]

Try:

<?php include "http://oaserv.ath.cx:7668/&gt;Oasiz"; ?>

[Rοb]

Hi, cheers for the replies

Ive tried those suggestions and unfortunately it still wont work:(

Its very odd but it must be possible!

[marcele]

Windows versions of PHP prior to PHP 4.3.0 do not support accessing remote files via this function, even if allow_url_fopen is enabled.

What version of php are you using and do you have allow_url_fopen is enabled?

I suggest looking at :
http://us2.php.net/include/

[Rοb]

PHP Version 4.3.8 and allow_url_fopen is enabled

[Michael_C]

This definately works.

<?php
$fp = @fsockopen("oaserv.ath.cx", 7668, $errno, $errstr, 5);
if(!$fp) {
	echo "Error: Could not open socket! $errstr ($errno)";
}
else {
	$request = "GET /&gt;Oasiz HTTP/1.1\r\n";
	$request .= "Host: oaserv.ath.cx\r\n";
	$request .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
	
	fwrite($fp, $request);
	$str = "";
	while (!feof($fp)) {
  $str .= fgets($fp, 128);
	}
	
	@fclose($fp);
	
	echo $str;
}
?>

[Mat (FDNZ)]

Remove > from the filename. It's invalid in filenames anyway.

[Rοb]

Thank you, that code works! (Michael_C)

Its all much appreciated, thanks to all those who replied

[Stephen]

if you opened the URL in your browser you will see that the browser automatically corrects the invalud character into a URL safe one

<?php include("http://oaserv.ath.cx:7668/%3EOasiz"); ?>

should work

<edit>maybe not, seems to get weird output on my server

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Warning: main(http://oaserv.ath.cx:7668/%3EOasiz): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! <br><font color="#848673"><b>Sorry, we have found no matching results!<br><br> Click <a href="http://www.oasiz.com/chat/faf.ph in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test.php on line 1

[Michael_C]

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if you opened the URL in your browser you will see that the browser automatically corrects the invalud character into a URL safe one

<?php include("http://oaserv.ath.cx:7668/%3EOasiz"); ?>

should work

<edit>maybe not, seems to get weird output on my server

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I tried a few methods but the only thing that seems to work was opening a socket and requesting it via HTTP. Not the most efficient method ubt its the only one that seems to work.