can i include an asp file from another server?

[bomburmusicmallet]

Hi, my first post.

Here's what I want to do. Open an index.php file on our (unix) server that does some processing, and in the middle of the page, I want to load something that is generated in asp but resides on another (windows) server.

Is it possible to include an asp file that is located on another server? What would be necessary to set up on that server? I haven't spoken to the other developer yet; I'd like to have some idea of what's possible/what I need to do first.

Thanks.

[paladin]

Deending on the system you should be able to use the fopen() function to open and then parse the HTML of the remote ASP page.

-Alon

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, bomburmusicmallet.

Another option may be to just include() [php.net] the content you want from the remote server.

[bomburmusicmallet]

I tried the include, and got some ugly errors! Can an include statement be something like:

<? include 'http://www.server.com/page.asp?>

That is what I would need to do.

Thanks!

[coopster]

It's right on that page that I linked

If "URL fopen wrappers" are enabled in PHP (which they are in the default configuration), you can specify the file to be included using a URL (via HTTP or other supported wrapper ...

I noticed you are missing the ending quotation mark. Also, you may want to try using full tags rather than the short open tags.

<?php include 'http://www.server.com/page.asp' ?>