On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 09:31 PM, David Smith wrote:
Wade,
Do us a favor of conserving mailbox real-estate by consolidating your replies into a single email.
i apologize... i didn't think of the others until the first were sent.
Okay, when you run into PHP problems, www.php.net will become your best
friend. I went to www.php.net and typed fopen in the search box. This page
came up, complete with code examples on how to use fopen:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php
i've tried php.net a lot. i have found however that it's is a lot easier to ask a friend... if the friend is willing. i will try to do a better job of answering my questions myself before asking in the future, however, if you would like.
Don't use file() in the case of your code, because your code relies on fopen() returning a file-handle (if you don't know what that is, Dr. Google does) rather than an array like file() will return.
Your sample code appears to be wrong also in that $filename is not a www
URL but a local file name. Change it like so to point to the file on the
web server:
$filename = "http://virtual1.example.com/data/directory.data";;
that was the entire point of my post. i did try a "www URL" (called "absolute"), but it didn't work... that is why i posted my question.
or wherever the file /really/ resides.
Judging from your questions, it's time for you to get intimate with a good
PHP tutorial. _Programming PHP_ is a good start, but Ryan Bird's tutorial
(mentioned in a previous post) is a great, free resource. The PHP folks
have one on php.net also that is excellent:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php
i just ordered two books... they are in the mail.
Read them. Learn how PHP works, and then come ask us questions when you
get stuck. PHP put together the best documentation in the world to provide
people learning PHP with a fast, easy resource for figuring it out. It has
never let me down. Sometimes it's hard to learn a new language by jumping
in to someone's big application. So, get the basics down by reading those
tutorials I pointed out, and write a couple of your own little scripts
that use fopen() (and anything else)
isn't that what i'm trying to do here?
to figure out how it works, then come back to us when you get stuck. We'll be happy to help.
--Dave
<quote who="Wade Preston Shearer">i don't need to write to it... just read it
how to i set it up to "allow urls in fopen" ?
On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 08:06 PM, Andrew Jorgensen wrote:
That really will kill the purpose of having a database anyway. You won't be able to write to the remote file, especially not if there's another system writing to it. Of course read-only will work okay if you allow urls in fopen and you have the right libs to do so.
Phillip Hellewell wrote:I'm not a PHP expert, but I would say
http://virtual1.example.com/data/directory.data
is NOT a file. You cannot access it as if it were a file. It is a
file
on a remote server. To access a file across a network or an
internet, you need to fetch the file in some way. You can't do that
with a simple
fopen. You need curl library or something that will let you connect
to
a remote server and download a file, like what wget does.
Phillip
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:01:59PM -0700, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:i have a script, on... virtual1.example.com
...that reads a flat-file database... /data/database.data
which works quite well. on... virtual2.example.com
i put the same script, but didn't want to manage two copies of the same database, thus killing the point of having a database. so, instead of putting... $filename ="data/directory.data";
...in the top of the script, i put... $filename ="http://virtual1.example.com/data/directory.data";;
...but it didn't work. i'm guessing that there are some security
things are prevent this or something, but am not sure. do i not have
the syntacs correct?
-wade preston
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