Hello all,
I have an issue working with NT4 Server, IIS4 and PHP4. I have created a couple of virtual directories in the website I am running PHP in through IIS. These are looked upon as subdirectories of the web.
I have been able to successfully use PHP to provide links to images in these virtual directories pretty easily, so I know that IIS recognizes them and HTML can find them.
Here's what I would like to do...I would like to have several directories where include files are kept. For instance, one virtual IIS directory is called "newslinks", and points to a directory on another server.
I'd like to be able to call this...
<?
include "newslinks/skedselect.htm"
?>
...where "skedselect.htm" is a file in the "newslinks" virtual IIS directory. Problem is, PHP doesn't recognize newslinks. I can include files pretty easily if I move them to the root of IIS or create a folder in IIS and look there for the file to include.
I've tried several things, but need a simple way to be able to get HTML files to include from various servers, and don't want to modifiy the PHP.INI file all the time to get the right directories, I think management through IIS would be better using virtual directories.
Anyone have any thoughts on this? Any help or direction would be most appreciated!
Including files in virtual directories on IIS
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thomkenney
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from the user contributed notes for realpath
I have PHP4 running on Win2k IIS and consequently the $DOCUMENT_ROOT is not
automatically defined by PHP. Since I often need to find the absolute path
of a virtual path, I created a workaround function that acts like
server.mappath() from ASP:
// relative path to virtual directory root
$relative = str_repeat('../',substr_count($PATH_INFO,'/')-1);
function mappath($path) {
// transforms virtual or relative path to an absolute path
global $relative;
return realpath(substr($path,0,1)=='/' ? $relative.substr($path,1) :
$path);
}
Hope this is helpful to some of you.
> Dave [twadzilla.com]
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thomkenney
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Here's a tip I received from Mike Johnson at bigattichouse.com...instead of using the include, I used this with great success!
$fp = fopen("http://192.168.6.7/newslink/sked/skedselect.htm", "rb");
fpassthru($fp);
flush();
Works like a charm for me, and it uses the virtual directories I needed.
Thanks, Mike!
$fp = fopen("http://192.168.6.7/newslink/sked/skedselect.htm", "rb");
fpassthru($fp);
flush();
Works like a charm for me, and it uses the virtual directories I needed.
Thanks, Mike!