Re: [uug] reading a flat-file database in on another

[Andrew Jorgensen]

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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