Including Files Between Sites

PHP
1

I have a file at mysite/2B/dbc.php that I would like to include in a page on another website, mysite2. Can someone show me the right way to do it?

After perusing http://ro1.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php I tried this:

include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/2B/dbc.php";

But that didn’t work. I understand you can do it with OOP, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

I posted the code I’ve been using below. It’s worked fine for years until today. I asked my webhost to enable PDO, and everything blew up. First, they told me there was a conflict between PDO and my .htaccess files - and he was apparently right, because commenting out a certain line restored my sites. However, my inter-site includes are no longer working; I get a “permission denied” error.

Even more bizarre, a tech support guy told me that you can’t include files between two CPanel accounts - even though that’'s exactly what I’ve been doing forever!

Anyway, I asked them to disable PDO, which will hopefully restore my sites. In the meantime, I’d like to figure out a new way to include files before I have PDO re-enabled. Thanks.


switch (PHP_OS)
{
 case 'Linux':
 $BaseINC = '/home/jinxguy2/public_html';
 $BaseURL = 'http://www.jinx.org';
 break;

 case 'Darwin':
 break;

 default:
 break;
}

include ($BaseINC."/2B/dbc.php");

P.S. Is it true that you can’t include files between two CPanel accounts? I mean it obviously isn’t technically true, because I’ve been doing it. But does CPanel somehow impede with the process?

2

I just tried including your site index.html and got the following errors:


Warning: include() [function.include]: 
http:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_include=0 in 
  /home/MYSITE/www/index-include-TEST.php on line 28

Warning: include(http://www.jinx.org/index.html) [function.include]:
  failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in 
   /home/MySite/www/index-include-TEST.php on line 28

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.jinx.org/index.html' for inclusion 
 (include_path='.:/www/ZZZ/XXX:/YYY/local/lib/php') in 
 /MySite/www/index-include-TEST.php on line 28

I tried using PHP file_get_contents(…); and it worked fine:



error_reporting(-1);
ini_set('display_errors', true);

$remoteFile = 'http://www.jinx.org/index.html';
$contents = file_get_contents($remoteFile); 
echo $contents;
3

Thanks, but I don’t think that will work in this case, because I’m not just echoing static text. I guess my database query is pretty simple, but the other key include in turn includes a variety of files with complex scripts, database queries, etc. If I’m not mistaken, dynamic code can’t be included with file_get_contents, right? I’ll give it a try, though…

4

Yes, I just tried it, and it works great at including content - but not dynamic code. Thanks, though.

5

P.S. I just talked to another support tech who told me CPanel has been upgraded to disallow sharing files between sites. I guess it was a huge vulnerability; lots of malicious use. That means I’m going to have to go back to square one develop each site independently.

6

I am amazed that “disallow sharing files between sites.” was allowed.

The configuration directory from your Main Site could be copied to your Other Sites and as far as I know the database is common across your Main Site and all Other Sites. Databases available on all my sites with no problem.

7

Ya, I’m grabbing DB content across sites as well on the SAME server. Not grabbing files though.

8

Yes, I verified that I can make remote database connections.

Thanks for reminding me about file_get_contents, which you told me about recently. I used it to get custom 404 error pages up on all my sites really quickly; I just made a master 404 page on my main site and used file_get_contents to pipe it into the other sites.

This is unreal. My peak traffic begins in just a few days, and I took this entire week off from work to work on my websites, only to have them blow up in my face. Anyway, I’ll probably set a new world record reconfiguring my sites. :wink:

9

Someone suggested that I could still include files between sites if I switched to a VPS. So I asked some questions about that here.