inlcude across web?

[idtstudios2]

I have many websites that exist on many webservers in many countries. All of the sites pull template files from "template.mainsite.com". This allows us to have around ninety sites pull off of one set of template files. You can imagine how usefull and time saving this is.

Now, the problem is that before now we have used html for everything but we have recently switched everything to php in order to add some content. the template files now contain php and since you we can't really "include" them acoss the web we have a major problem.

Is there any work around on this? any tips?

Thanks

 

[KarveR]

they should include() with a reasonable degree of success, depending on what sort of load the template server can handle - provided it runs php too.

Alternatively, hmm tricky. copy them out to each server ?

Serve the template code from a database(eg mysql) for processing server side?



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[sleipnir214]

If you need to be able to include the PHP source code on all servers, you could (on a unix-like OS) provide symbolic links from all your template .php files to template .phps files. Then configure your web server to pass out the source code of .phps files.

If you point a web client (which, when including a PHP script via a URL, PHP effectively becomes) to foo.php, you get the output of the script run. If you point the web client to foo.phps, you get the PHP source code.

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[KarveR]

If you point the web client to foo.phps, you get the PHP source code.

You can view the source code complete with colour highlighting.

You probably can't do much with it tho.

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[sleipnir214]

If an include() statement includes a .phps file and gets the source code, the including script now has code to execute.

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[idtstudios2]

thanks for the replies guys. I'm going to try the .phps option and see if it works. We had thought about putting them in a database but our three db servers are already overwhelmed and we already have template.mainsite.com load balancing between two servers.

thanks again.

 

[KingCrab]

Your templates should be local. I would just make something to distribute all the templates to all the sites (update them) when the templates at the mainsite change.. or something. Pulling templates across the internet seems like a lot of time lost for whoever is viewing the site

 

[sysadmin42]

this method also sounds like a great big security risk if not done correctly.

 

[idtstudios2]

This is what we've decided on:

Having two load balanced servers in two datacenters (one in USA and one in HK) for distributing template files. This will hopefully reduce load times a little bit. Since we are having to pull the templates as source anyways, we went ahead and encrypted them. Images are distributed to each and every server reducing the overall template files (altogether) to 15KB. So i think we're going to be ok as far as speed and even if someone figures out which servers store template files they will atleast have to deal with a bit of trouble to read them.


IF this plan fails we also have a backup plan ready to go which involves clustering the servers and delivering template files to each cluster.