include problem

[pentahexamine]

I have a site that uses php includes for header, footer and most importantly menu as that changes constantly.  I have a second site that hosts a shopping cart.  I would like to put those includes on the shopping cart site i.e.

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<?php include("http://homerart.org/includes/menu.inc") ?>.  This doesn't seem to work.  How can I do this?
Thanks

[cwarcarblue11]

I have a site that uses php includes for header, footer and most importantly menu as that changes constantly.  I have a second site that hosts a shopping cart.  I would like to put those includes on the shopping cart site i.e.

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<?php include("http://homerart.org/includes/menu.inc") ?>.  This doesn't seem to work.  How can I do this?
Thanks

Add a semi-colon like this:

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<?php include("http://homerart.org/includes/menu.inc"); ?>[/code

[pentahexamine]

Nope.  include() apparently doesn't work with URLs.  I'm looking at possibly fopen() or get_file_contents().  Any ideas?

[cwarcarblue11]

Oh I am sorry I overlooked that ... Yes, fopen() would work. I think this will help you.

[pentahexamine]

Yes!  That did it.  Thanks for the help.  I'm a happy newbie.