The PHP 4.0 manual contains this information:
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Chapter 20. Using remote files
As long as support for the "URL fopen wrapper" is enabled when you configure
PHP (which it is unless you explicitly pass the --disable-url-fopen-wrapper
flag to configure (for versions up to 4.0.3) or set allow_url_fopen to off
in php.ini (for newer versions), you can use HTTP and FTP URLs with most
functions that take a filename as a parameter, including the require() and
include() statements.
Note: You can't use remote files in include() and require() statements on
Windows.
For example, you can use this to open a file on a remote web server, parse
the output for the data you want, and then use that data in a database
query, or simply to output it in a style matching the rest of your website.
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The example in the Help shows opening a file at http://www.php.net/ with
fopen(). Are they accessing the source code of the script, or the HTML code
that is output by the PHP server when it runs the PHP script that it loads
from that location?
What I want to be able to do is, to get around the problem that the server
that I am running my site on does not have database, I want to run the
database on another server elsewhere on the Web. I want to be able to, by
fopen() -ing the page via its URL, to be passing some variables to the
script, have the remote PHP server run the script and pass back to me the
output as a file, which I can then load into my web page and display.
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