RE: [PHP] Include Problem

________________________________________ From: Jim Lucas [lists@cmsws.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:32 PM To: Wei, Alice J. Cc: Jay Blanchard; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Include Problem Wei, Alice J. wrote: > ________________________________________ > From: Jay Blanchard [jblanchard@pocket.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:10 PM > To: Wei, Alice J.; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] Include Problem > > [snip] > foreach ($lines2 as $line_num => $line2) { > > echo "<p>Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . htmlspecialchars($line2) . > "</p>"; > > } > > include ('http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php'); > > > > My problem is that when I use a blank file that only has > > > > <?php include > 'http://www.mysite.com/calculate.php'; ?> > > > > The code works and displays what is meant to display. However, when I > copy this snippet into the code even outside the foreach loop, it does > not even read, or give me an error. Is there something I should not be > doing here? > [/snip] > > If you get no error the file is being included properly. What is the > goal here? Is it to have calculate.php perform actions on the returned > data from lung.txt? > > The goal is to do a word count of what was in lung.txt, since I don't want the users to > interact directly with this file. However, this is not showing up at all. Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. > Make sure you have these enabled allow_url_fopen = On allow_url_include = On This might be your problem. They limit things so remote files cannot be access via fopen/include/etc... One of them was off when I checked, but it appears that the output does not change when I have the foreach and the include in the file. This is not in a function or a subroutine, so this should not have a global problem, I think. Could there be other things I missed? Alice -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare