Full URL in PHP Include

[ludderz]

Heya again

Been developing a new project for a bit now and have finaly got my act together to begin the push to make it live. I have made a nice template file which calls various bits of information from various places. All of the includes in the page are done via a PHP Include. This works fine if your linking to a file thats easy to get to such as "header.php" however as soon as you try to use a full url "http://mywebsite.com/header.php" it breaks the include.

Anyone have any idea why this is and possibly know a way to fix this?

Much apreciated

Ludz~

[Pajter]

As far as I know, it's not possible to include url's like that. I think it has to do with remote including. PHP doesn't allow that for security reasons.

[metal_dragen Veteran]

Status-seeker is semi-correct. You can use URLs in include() statements if url_fopen_wrappers is enabled in the PHP configuration. However, it is a security concern. If the files to be included are located on the same server as the calling script, use the absolute path to the file.

[DaveLegg Developer]

It's quite possible that the problem is coming from the fact you're including the php file from a url, and therefore it's being processed on the remote server, and only sending the output back, not the source as you wanted.

[darkhooda]

Regardless of whether fopen allows it, it is often possible to use CURL to get the file you want to include and to write that file locally. However, that is very inefficient in terms of execution time, so it's still best to just leave it to include locally.