How to execute and get content of a .php file in a variable?

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I want to get contents of a .php file in a variable on other page.

I have two files, myfile1.php and myfile2.php.

myfile2.php

<?PHP
    $myvar="prashant"; // 
    echo $myvar;
?>

Now I want to get the value echoed by the myfile2.php in an variable in myfile1.php, I have tried the follwing way, but its taking all the contents including php tag () also.

<?PHP
    $root_var .= file_get_contents($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/myfile2.php", true);
?>

Please tell me how I can get contents returned by one PHP file into a variable defined in another PHP file.

Thanks

Answers

You can use the include directive to do this.

File 2:

<?php
    $myvar="prashant";
?>

File 1:

<?php 

include('myfile2.php');
echo $myvar;

?>

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

falyna

Provided allow_url_fopen is enabled, you can just use file_get_contents :

$my_var = file_get_contents('http://yoursite.com/your-page.html');

And, if you need more options, take a look at Stream Functions -- there is an example on the stream_context_create manual page where a couple of HTTP-headers are set.

If allow_url_fopen is disabled, another solution is to work with curl -- means a couple more lines of code, though.

Something as basic as this should work in the simplest situations :

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://.com/");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$my_var = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

But note that you might need some additional options -- see the manual page of curl_setopt for a complete list.

For instance :

I often set CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, so redirects are followed.
The tiemout-related options are quite often useful too.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

miroslav_bajtoš

$url = 'http://api.microsofttranslator.com/V2/Ajax.svc/Translate?text=siapa+rektor+ipb&appId=58C40548A812ED699C35664525D8A8104D3006D2&from=id&to=en';

// using file_get_contents function
$content = file_get_contents($url);
echo $content;
#output# "who is the Rector of the University"

// using file function // read line by line in array
$content = file($url);
print_r($content);

#output# Array (0] => ?"who is the Rector of the University")

// using cURL
$ch = curl_init($url);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);  
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);  
$content = curl_exec($ch);
echo $content;
#output# "who is the Rector of the University"

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

cadrell0

For the benefit of anyone running into this thread I give below the fully functional script I created. It assumes that you have created and shared your public ssh_key with the remote server (EVBackup in my case) as described here.

In my case I had to deal with one additional complication - I am in the process of setting up the first of my servers but will have several others. Their domain names bear the form svN.example.com where N is 1, 2, 3 etc.

On my EVBackup account I have created folders bearing the same names, sv1, sv2 etc. I wanted to create a script that would safely run from any of my servers. Here is that script with some comments

#! /bin/bash
# Backup to EVBackup Server

local="/var/lib/automysqlbackup/daily/dbname"
#replace dbname as appropriate

svr="$(uname -n)"
remote="$(svr/.example.com/)"
#strip out the .example.com bit to get the destination folder on the remote server
remote+="/"

evb="user@user.evbackup.com:"
#user will have to be replaced with your username
evb+=$remote

cmd='rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /backup/ssh_key" '
#your ssh key location may well be different

cmd+=$local
cmd+=$evb
#at this point cmd will be something like
#rsync -avz -e "ssh -i /backup/ssh_key" /home bob@bob.evbackup.com:home-data

eval $cmd

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

retro

To summerize, I need to open huges compressed files (> 4GB) so the technique of Dan won't work and I want the length (number of line) of the file so the technique of Mark Adler is not appropriate.

Eventually, I found for uncompressed files a solution( not the most optimized but it works!) which can be transposed easily to compressed files:

size = 0

with gzip.open(data_file) as f:
  for line in f:
    size+= 1
    pass

return size

Thank you all, people in this forum are very effective!

Saturday, August 20, 2022

sarneeh

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