PHP To Insert text from another domain

[Dez]

Hi all,

From another thread where I thankfully received some excellent help from some of the other members :

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/show...16#post3061116

or :

http://tinyurl.com/fuqyf

I just need a bit more help if possible.

I think I've gone wrong somewhere, it seems that the rates will only update, if I upload currency.txt ? ;-(

It's now important that one domain gets it's info from another one, so that :

As an example, in www.130605.com/currency/index.php the currency is displayed ;

and that page gets its calculations from www.010805.com/currency/currency.txt

which gets its calculations from www.010805.com/currency/get_rates.php


Have I got it correct that the cron job :

php -q /home/practice/www/currency/get_rates.php > /dev/null

needs to be on the www.010805.com domain ? (which I would prefer really)


Also, in the context of the above text and excellent help from the others here, could anyone please fill in/confirm what the chmod's for the bits below should be please ?

currency.txt - 666 ? The folder that contains currency.txt - ?

get_rates.php - ? The folder that contains get_rates.php - ?

index.php - ? The folder that contains index.php - ?

Any help really appreciated.

All the best.

Dez.

[ChrisGilmore]

So basically, you want one page to include the contents of www.456-bb.com/currency/currency.txt.

<?php include('www.456-bb.com/currency/currency.txt'); ?>

Should work.

Hope this helps,
-
ChrisGilmore

[Dez]

Many thanks Chris - it's appreciated.

PHP Daemon and a couple of others kindly helped with the code, but since trying to do it, so that one domain gets it from the other, it seems to have gone wrong.

At the moment, in the index page where the calculations are made, this code is at the top of the page :

<?php
$rates=file("http://www.010805.com/currency/currency.txt");
$dollar_rate=$rates[0];
$pound_rate=$rates[1];
?>

Which would, essentaiilly be doing the same thing as you suggest - getting the contents of the file - but it just doesn't work, until I physically upload the currency.txt file ? ? ;-(

If anyone needs any extra info to help on this please let me know.

Dez.

[php_daemon]

It seems you got it all right. The only permissions you gotta change is for currency.txt, to 666. Leave other files and directories as they are.

[Dez]

Hi, I was kinda hoping you were going to appear here

I did manually upload currency.txt earlier today, so the rates may appear to be correct now for that reason - but have just changed that file to 666 like you suggested and will look again tomorrow.

There's just a couple of things that I'm really unsure of. Bearing all the following in mind, could you answer the parts asterisked at all please ?

It's now important that one domain gets it's info from another one, so that :

As an example, in www.130605.com/currency/index.php the currency is displayed ;

and that page gets its calculations from www.010805.com/currency/currency.txt

which gets its calculations from www.010805.com/get_rates.php


* * Have I got it correct that the cron job :

php -q /home/mine/www/currency/get_rates.php > /dev/null

needs to be on the www.010805.com domain ? (which I would prefer really)


* * Also, in the context of the above text could anyone please fill in/confirm what the chmod's for the bits below should be please ?

currency.txt - 666 The folder that contains currency.txt - ?

get_rates.php - ? The folder that contains get_rates.php - ?

index.php - ? The folder that contains index.php - ?

Any help really appreciated.

All the best.

Dez.

[php_daemon]

The cron job, you can enter a full path to php, I'm not sure if it can find it now.

Yes, get_rates.php should be ran on 010805.com.

You should only care about the permissions of currency.txt (666), leave the others default (755, if you didn't change them before, leave them what they are).

[Dez]

Many thanks for the info php_daemon - I'm learning every day with this php stuff

The help is much appreciated.

Hopefully, tomorrow will see an automatic change on the page

Dez.

[Dez]

Hi php_Daemon - Looked on the page a few moments ago and it had 1 Pound = 1.484 Euros - I then uploaded currency.txt and it changed to 1.469

Any ideas where it's going wrong at all please.

Any help very gratefully received.

Dez.

[php_daemon]

Probably cron job is not doing it's job. Check paths again, check if you've set the right period to run it.

[Dez]

Many thanks for sticking with this one php_Daemon - it's appreciated.

I tried putting in just the complete file path like you suggested, which would be :

http://www.010805.com/currency/get_rates.php

But, then get the error messages in my emails like this :

/bin/sh: line 1: http://www.010805.com/currency/get_rates.php: No such file or directory

The file obviously does exist !

Any help much appreciated.

Dez.

[php_daemon]

Oh, you have misunderstood me. I meant a full path to php compiler, so it looked like:
/usr/bin/php -q /home/mine/www/currency/get_rates.php > /dev/null

I don't know if it's /usr/bin/php on your server, you should check what it is.

[Dez]

Thanks for that - just updated the cronjob. Won't know until tomorrow, if it works or not. Will let you know.

One thing, and I don't know if it's related or not, but the first result doesn't round up or down to 3 figures ?

All the best.

Dez.

[php_daemon]

Set a cron job to every 10 minutes or so to see if it works sooner than tomorrow.

What first result?

[Dez]

Yep, I'll do that.

The first conversion rate ends with 1.49 - but I thought we organised it so that there were 3 digits after the dot ?

www.130605.com/currency/index.php

The helps appreciated.

Dez.

[php_daemon]

Check that again, it maybe that it's set to 2.

[Dez]

I haven't changed anything from when you last did it for me - 'onest guv ;-)

This is the the code for it :

1 British Pound &nbsp; = <?php echo round(1/$pound_rate, 3) ?> Euros

Dez.

[php_daemon]

Ah, it doesn't show trailing zeros.

[Dez]

Ah, how do you get it to always show 3 digits after the full stop please ?

Dez.

[php_daemon]

<?php echo number_format(round(1/$pound_rate, 3),3) ?>

[Dez]

Many thanks for that, it works perfectly.

ok, I've set the cron to :
/usr/bin/php -q /home/practice/www/currency/get_rates.php > /dev/null like you kindly suggested, and I've had no error messages, but, the page hasn't updated either ;-(

What would you like me to do ? Shall I update manually today, ot try something else ?

All the best.

Dez.

[php_daemon]

Is it really /usr/bin/php on your server? The path can be totally different, you should make sure it is the right path.

[Dez]

No problem, I'll check with the web hosts.

Be back as soon as I get an answer.

Thank you for your time on this.

Dez.

[Dez]

Hi Php_Daemon,

Problem all solved - you were right - the path was slightly incorrect.

I genuinely thank you for all of your time and patience - it's been very much appreciated.

All the best.

Dez.

[php_daemon]

You're welcome