| How to include the same table in multiple sites ?
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papa_mia
msg:4289366 | 4:41 am on Mar 30, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Hello
I have 9 websites. I want to include an html table in every footer of those 9 sites. The table code is in a file located on another site (not one of the 9 sites).
All sites are php.
I want this so that I can modify the table from one file instead of having to modify it 9 times.
Is that possible ? And how can I do it ?
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papa_mia
msg:4289464 | 11:55 am on Mar 30, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I have put the table code in a file called textlinks.inc
Then I used the function:
<?php include("textlinks.inc"); ?>
in every site's footer.
But it doesn't seem to work
?
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bw100
msg:4289474 | 1:12 pm on Mar 30, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Try changing the file extension to .php from .inc
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rocknbil
msg:4289584 | 4:36 pm on Mar 30, 2011 (gmt 0) |
You can include **any** file, regardless of the extension. You only need the extension to be .php if you want to execute the code in the include (and even then, I think, it will still execute with inc . . . )
<?php include("textlinks.inc"); ?>
<?php include("textlinks.txt"); ?>
<?php include("textlinks.html"); ?>
<?php include("textlinks"); ?>
Anyway when you do this,
<?php include("textlinks.inc"); ?>
... it means the file textlinks.inc must be on the same server, and in the same directory as the php script including it. Is that the case? Doesn't sound like it:
| The table code is in a file located on another site (not one of the 9 sites). |
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You can try
<?php include("https://www.example.com/textlinks.inc"); ?>
But this will fail if the server is not configured with allow_url_fopen or allow_url_include on - which it's often not by default. docs [php.net]
If these "nine sites" are all located, say, on a dedicated server, you **can** configure them and the sites to open the file regardless of location, but you'll have to use the full server path:
<?php include("/var/www/domainname.com/includes/textlinks.inc"); ?>
If neither of these are possible, your only other option would be to then keep nine copies of the same file on all the sites.
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