On 15 Aug 2008, at 15:17, Dan Shirah wrote:
What about using some type of a dispatch script? Locate all the
files outside of the doc root and then just call: viewdocument.php?
ID=12345678 ? Although now that I've typed that I realize that you
would still be running the same issue.. Unless you used javascript
in your PHP to call the file maybe?
Hmmm, what if I tried to use PHP to write a simple batch file? Use
the batch file to copy the selected file from one server to
another. And then open the copied file using any method I wanted
since it's new location would be in a temp directory?
And then maybe use if_exists() to see if the new file is located in
the temp directory and if it is, display it.
The only issue there might be when a file is really large or the
network is sluggish and it could take 1-5 seconds for the file to
copy over. In which case if_exists() would be false since it is
taking a while for the file to copy. Hmmm.
PHP *cannot* access those files. Doesn't matter if you call a batch
file from the PHP since that will still be running as PHP.
Your best bet would be to run a periodic sync to copy the files across
from the other server but it would have to run outside the IIS
process. There are plenty of solutions around for doing this and they
have nothing to do with PHP. You can then refer to the local copy of
the file from PHP and it will then work.
-Stut
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