Posted by Rik on 08/01/07 16:27

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:19:45 +0200, charliefortune
<google@charliefortune.com> wrote:

> On 1 Aug, 17:16, Rik <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:04:14 +0200, charliefortune
>>
>>
>>
>> <goo...@charliefortune.com> wrote:
>> > I have been including local .php files in a script succesfully for a
>> > while. But now I want it to be a remote include i.e.
>>
>> > include ("http://myserver.co.uk/includes/classLib.php");
>>
>> > and I get
>>
>> > Cannot instantiate non-existent class:
>>
>> > I know the path is correct because if I include simply a line of text
>> > to echo then it works fine. Are there any issues with variable scope
>> > when including remote classes please ? My class definition is simply
>>
>> > class AdminLib {
>> > blah blah;
>> > blah;
>> > blah;
>> > }
>>
>> > do I have to declare it global or anything ? Thanks.
>>
>> If the include works fine (no allow_url_fopen or the remote include
>> thingy): don't forget they need to start & end with php opening &
>> closing
>> tags... Else it's 'just content'.
>>
>> Class definitions have no scope, allthough PHP6 might have support for
>> namespaces.
>
> The include is wrapped in <?php ?> tags so that's not the problem.

I sure hope it doesn't get run, but outputs php code. Do you see your
class definition if you look at the url in a browser? (well in the source
of the page, the <?php ?> output will effectively hide it in most...

> I
> don't know about the allow_url_fopen stuff.

Well, for your settings:
echo 'Remote opening ',ini_get('allow_url_fopen') ? 'allowed':'disallowed';
echo 'Remote including ',ini_get('allow_url_include') ?
'allowed':'disallowed';

> Is there an fread
> alternative I could do to read the file and eval() it perhaps, just to
> get it working ?

That would only be necesary if allow_url_include was set to false.

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Rik Wasmus

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