[RESOLVED] Variable from remote page

[dclamp]

basicly, i am trying to get a variable from a page on my server. I am doing this as copyright protection... but i cant seem to pass a variable from my page on the server, to the other page... here is my code:

include("http://verify.subsoft.net/urlsnipper.php");
if($verify == "") {
    echo $copyright;
    echo "This site is no longer valid. Please contact SubSoft for more information.";
} 

[kows]

you can't do that (at least not the way you want to). if you include a HTTP URL, you're including a PHP file that has already been parsed and turned into HTML/plain text by PHP. no variables really exist in it anymore. you need a copy of the script locally to be able to do what you want.

[dclamp]

oh ok. Well the purpose of the file is to test to see if the copy they have is legit and that they didnt remove the copyright notice.

[kows]

well, then you could just save the text of that page to a variable and search for the text that's supposed to be there.

<?php
  $str = "copyright blah blah blah";
  $page = file_get_contents('http://website.com/page.php');
  if(strpos($page, $str) !== false){
    //it's there
  }else{
    //not there
  }
?>

[dclamp]

oh ok. Thanks