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 > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
