Including a file

[eluser]Philo01[/eluser]
Hi there!

I was wondering if there is a way to do this.
Lets say you have a website (wordpress for example) and an standalone application (CodeIgniter).

Now you want to include text generated by this application.
Lets say our generated text link is: http://www.yoursite.com/mygenerator/output/text

Now what you could do is just include that link, but many servers don't allow that:

Code:

<?php
    include('http://www.yoursite.com/mygenerator/output/text');
?>

This will probably return:

Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

(Is it maybe possible to create a file called in /mygenerator/output.php hook this file up to CI and load the data? Because if you would include mygenerator/output.php, this would work because it isn't a url.)

Now a other way to include this is using an iframe, but I don't really like this because styling you have applied on your website, does not apply with data in your iFrame.

Anyone who could help me out!

Would really appreciate it!

Kind regards,

Philo

Found Methods - #1
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I found this method to be working but not sure if its the best way.
Create a file mygenerator/output.php and add the following line:

Code:

echo file_get_contents('http://www.yoursite.com/mygenerator/output/text');

Then include output.php in the main site
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[eluser]Ben Edmunds[/eluser]
An ajax request might be a good and easy way to accomplish this.

Or the best way would probably be using curl, if your server supports it.

[eluser]Philo01[/eluser]
[quote author="Ben Edmunds" date="1256525657"]An ajax request might be a good and easy way to accomplish this.

Or the best way would probably be using curl, if your server supports it.[/quote]

Thanks for your reply!

Well, the problem is that this is going to be an application that can be bought.
So I would like to make it work as much out of the box as possible.

file_get_contents = Not supported by every server
curl = Not supported by every server
Ajax = This is an option, because the only thing they would have to do is include a javascript file.

Other options are welcome, so If anyone know another, please let me know

Thanks!