Include external file on web page

[flo55y]

Hi Folks,

I've been sent here via the HTML and Apache forums. Please bear with me as I don't know PHP at all.

I want to be able to include content from a file in a webpage. I'm currently using SSI Include and that is working great when the file to be included is on the server where the web page lives.

However, I have a requirement to include content from a file held on another server. The SSI Include command doesn't appear to support this. When I try virtual or file in the include statement, it won't resolve to a file outside of this server.

It has been suggested that this can be done via PHP.

Does anyone know of a way to do this? It's really driving me up the wall - such a simple thing to want to do.

Many thanks, Graham.


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[thedaver]

harvest from this thread, same forum!!!!

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1291026&page=2

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[flo55y]

You see. The PHP forum is where all the clever people have been hanging out!

Thanks a lot thedaver for this. It's just what I'm looking for.

I'll have a play and get back to you with the results.

Thanks once again.
Graham.

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[flo55y]

Hi Folks,

Everything is working beautifully now. Thank you.

Just to let you know and anyone else that's looking to do this sort of thing how I resolved it.

I made use the following code (I didn't need to copy over the files as suggested by thedaver)...

<?php
include "[URL unfurl="true"]http://example.com/directory/file.ext";[/URL]
?>

and dropped this into my webpage.html code. I then renamed wegpage.html to webpage.php and it worked a treat!

Thanks once again.
Graham.

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