Including ModX URL's in PHP

Hello All,

I am new to this board and was hoping that someone can help me because
I am extremely frustrated.

Let me just give you a rundown of what I am using ModX for in the first
place. I maintain Cal Poly’s IEEE student branch’s web site at:
http://www.calpolyieee.org and I have a bunch of project managers that
need easy access to project pages. Most of my site does not use ModX
at all, only the project pages do. I create users in ModX and then give
them permission to access there own project pages. Then I just "used" to
use an include(’http://www.calpolyieee.org/modx/index.php?id=5’); lines of
php code to pop in the project page in ModX into the main projects page.

However I just upgraded to the newest version of ModX the way I was
instructed to and everything seemed to work fine on the ModX end.
However, the rest of my site became dysfunctional. None of the php include
url statements worked anymore. All of the url includes just time out.
And I know it is bad to allow url include,
but it was working fine and now its not. Please help, any suggestions
are welcomed!

Thanks!

Try switch off "Check HTTP_REFERER-headers" in config.

I had a similar problem and came up with it longer. Thank you mrhaw!

Hello mrhaw,

Thank you for your quick response. Check HTTP_REFERER-headers is already turned off in ModX config
and I can manually type in the URL into the address bar just fine. For example you can view
the page: http://www.calpolyieee.org/modx/index.php?id=7 in your browser outside of ModX just
fine, but when I try to include it in another page, it spits this out:

Warning: include(http://www.calpolyieee.org/modx/index.php?id=7) [function.include]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /home/content/c/a/l/calpolyieee/html/announcements.php on line 323

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ’http://www.calpolyieee.org/modx/index.php?id=7’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php’) in /home/content/c/a/l/calpolyieee/html/announcements.php on line 323

Like I said before, this always used to work with no problems until I upgraded.
But no include URL’s work now, not even ones to existing pages in my site, like:
include (’http://www.calpolyieee.org/membership.php’); and my php5.ini has not changed,
it still contains this data:

upload_max_filesize = 90M
post_max_size = 90M
display_errors = off
display_startup_errors = off
register_globals = off
allow_url_fopen = on
allow_url_include = on
memory_limit = -1
max_input_time = 500
max_execution_time = 500

Thank you for your continued support!

Maybe related problem
http://www.wallpaperama.com/forums/file-get-contents-failed-to-open-stream-connection-timed-out-t7028.html

Using URL includes can result in timeouts if there are too many of them (and you need to set allow_url_include in PHP 5.2). You might try something like this instead:



More ideas here: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php

Thanks guys for responses, however, none of those solved the problem.
I can include local files (ie. /membership.php, ../projects.php) and
I can include other site’s URLS (ie. http://www.google.com), but I cannot
include http://www.calpolyieee.org/modx/projects, which you can copy and
paste into your address bar just fine and it works. I keep getting the
timout issue.

I switched over to using friendly URL’s hoping this would address the
issue, but it doesn’t because ModX doesn’t actually create any of the
files/directories in the site, it only redirects to the correct page
when entered in the address bar which is very annoying if you are
trying to do the sort of thing I am. Any further suggestions?

If not, is there a way I can modify the modx code so that instead of
$_GET(’id’), I can create a variable $id before the include function
and have it passed into the modx code to have it spit out the page I want?

Thank you for your continued support.

You can’t just include the MODx index.php file or any alias of it routed via mod_rewrite (or similar tools). This automatically puts MODx Evolution in API mode and no request processing takes place. You need to read the the output of this URL request via curl, another HTTP client library, or by opening and reading the HTTP socket manually.

Thanks for your response OpenGeek. I just tried using curl as well, with no luck.
Here is the code I tried to use, it does not work for any of my files, even the
ones outside of the modx directory like membership.php:



However this one does work:



It seems as if all other URL’s work except for the ones local to the domain.
Or is this not what you were trying to suggest? Please let me know, because
I love all the ModX features and its power, but if I am unable to use them
outside of ModX, then the CMS isn’t much help.

Thanks!

These things work fine from my sites, and TBH, MODx is meant to be used as a framework. Integrating other software is up to how the other software is implemented. Regardless, I’m not sure what the issue is as I can get your site content fine.

Here is another approach:

This returns some HTML content on my local system, though not a valid HTML document...