how to include something from ANOTHER site...
OK, I've noticed that in PHP, I can include something that's under a different domain... but whenever I've tried that in an shtml page, it doesn't work...
on my site... let's say Site A... I use this command... and I can access / run the script... which is a banner script
whereas on site b, when I use PHP, I can use this syntax to refer to that script:
<?php
include "http://www.SiteA.com/cgi-bin/WWWAdvertsSSI.cgi" ;
?>unfortunately, the page I want to use to refer to SiteA is in html, and hence I can't run the php line... and doesn't work either...
any ideas?
Thanks in advance
zollet posted this at 23:13 — 26th September 2002.
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php.net/fopen
You'll need some PHP programming done if you just want to include parts of another website.
raine posted this at 06:45 — 27th September 2002.
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Is there anyway I can call this script with HTML only in an .shtml page?
If at all possible, I don't want to convert all my pages to php
zollet posted this at 11:00 — 27th September 2002.
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You need to call it from a .php file unless you configure Apache to parse .html files as PHP.
dk01 posted this at 13:41 — 27th September 2002.
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Can you use the shtml execute command? I dunno I have never actually used it.
-dk
mjames posted this at 03:44 — 28th September 2002.
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No, you cannot. SSI only works when you are calling files from your servers. You could use a JavaScript include, possibly, but the other site would have to do that for you and I don't recommend it because people with it disable won't see it and it's slower.
zollet posted this at 04:05 — 28th September 2002.
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Actually, you can execute files/scripts with SSI exec command.
ROB posted this at 04:25 — 28th September 2002.
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you can't include anything that is not on your server, or a mapped server, OTHER THAN what you'd see in a browser.
IE: you CAN indeed include a PHP file from a different domain if URL fopen wrappers are enabled, or you enable them, BUT you're not including it as PHP code, you're going to get the HTML output of the script (the same thing you'd see if you visited the URL in a browser). Now if the script outputs valid php code, or the webserver isnt configured to parse PHP files, PHP will fetch the code and execute it.
It's just the way it is, and the way it should be, and there's NO way around it, and it should be fairly obvious why that is. Being able to arbitrarily access anyones working code whenever you want just isn't a feature of PHP or any other language.
dk01 posted this at 12:11 — 28th September 2002.
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I think he is just trying to get the output rob. Not the actual code. Correct me if I am wrong but couldn't you have one php file on your local site that could access the remote site's output and then just use the execute command in SSI to run the php page. This would be slow but I think it would work. Something like:
I am not sure whether you would use "include" or "exec" for that last one but then you could have have getremotesite.php be:
<?phpinclude($url);
?>
Just a thought.
-dk
raine posted this at 18:17 — 3rd October 2002.
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Much thanks for all the input guys...
I crapped out and just installed the script on both servers so i don't have to include a script remotely =)
Thank you so much for the info tho!
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