Argh! Include Problem

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I can't seem to include showsurvey.php?surveyID=2 from my index page, it just doesn't work, I've tried full, absoloute, and paths, and neither work, a URL works, but thats been taken out in PHP 4.3.2, and my server is being upgraded in a few days to that, so it won't work at all then!

HELP!

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

You can't include a file with ?querystring=whatever in it. Wink

You have to set the variable in PHP.

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

But you can with a full URL which PHP.net removed from PHP 4.3.2, it's so stupid.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

It's not stupid. PHP is opening a file, bypassing "the Internet", and thus bypassing Apache at the same time, so it cannot pass a query string.

Include()ing a URL is wasteful, since the file is sitting right there on the website Smile

. [I was doing that on a few forum related files at 4WebHelp until I realised how silly it was Very Happy

(and got fed up of this server being the first host in our stats Laughing

] As to removing the possibility of including a URL, that may be stupid - I haven't looked into it Smile

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http://www.php.net/include/ wrote:

// Won't work; looks for a file named 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2' on the
// local filesystem.
include 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 7:26 pm (20 years, 10 months ago)

No it's not disabled in 4.3.2 , i just tested it with it.

From MAN:
============
Warning
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.

Example 12-5. include() through HTTP

Code:

<?php

/* This example assumes that www.example.com is configured to parse .php *
* files and not .txt files. Also, 'Works' here means that the variables *
* $foo and $bar are available within the included file. */

// Won't work; file.txt wasn't handled by www.example.com as PHP
include 'http://www.example.com/file.txt?foo=1&bar=2';

// Won't work; looks for a file named 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2' on the
// local filesystem.
include 'file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

// Works.
include 'http://www.example.com/file.php?foo=1&bar=2';

$foo = 1;
$bar = 2;
include 'file.txt'; // Works.
include 'file.php'; // Works.

?>

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