Call a Snippet from and external PHP file??

Does anyone know if you can call a Snippet from an external PHP file?

I want to use a snippet as a configuration file for a PHP code base that exists outside of MODx but exist in a folder on the same site.

Well, you could get the snippet code from the database and run it through the eval() function.

You also might be able to include() it as a URL if you put the snippet call as the only content of a document with a template of ’blank’. That would require having allow_url_inlcude and allow_url_fopen in your php.ini.

http://il2.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php (scroll down a bit to the relevant paragraph)

If "URL fopen wrappers" are enabled in PHP (which they are in the default configuration), you can specify the file to be included using a URL (via HTTP or other supported wrapper - see List of Supported Protocols/Wrappers for a list of protocols) instead of a local pathname. If the target server interprets the target file as PHP code, variables may be passed to the included file using a URL request string as used with HTTP GET. This is not strictly speaking the same thing as including the file and having it inherit the parent file’s variable scope; the script is actually being run on the remote server and the result is then being included into the local script.