PHP变量维护URL字符串

Question

I'm not a PHP developer, but I'm currently hacking on an internal tool so my team can take advantage of its goodness. There's an index file that looks like so:

require( ($loader_path = "../../loaderapi/") . "loader.php" );

Used like this, $loader_path will retain its value within the loader.php file.

However, we want to access this API from our team's server like so:

require( ($loader_path = "http://remoteservername/loaderapi/") . "loader.php" );

In this case the $loader_path variable doesn't retain its value. I'm guessing it has something to do with it being a full blown URL, but I might be wrong. Any idea on how I can make this work, or why I can't do it this way?

Answer 1

If your accessing a PHP script over HTTP, only the output of that script is returned. So your script will try to interpret the output of that remote PHP script and not its source.

If there is a connection over the file system, you may want to try file://remoteservername/loaderapi/loader.php instead.