allow_url_fopen disabled on server

[finetoons]

My lovely host, unannounced, globally disabled "allow_url_fopen" in the default.php.ini files.

There is no way to override this change.

So I think I have to adjust WB to use another means of remote file access.  They recommend using cURL.

I'm not a programmer...will this cause problems?

[kweitzel]

I haven't yet found any issues using cURL on hosts where allow_url_fopen is disabled. Here is some sample Code from a Template I created

Code:

       <?php
                 ob_start();
                     page_content(2);
                     $quote = ob_get_contents();
                 ob_end_clean();

                 if ($quote ==""){
                      $ch = curl_init();
                            $timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
                            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, WB_URL.'/pages/global.php');
                            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
                            curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
                            $file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
                            curl_close($ch);
                            // display file
                            echo $file_contents;
                 } else {
                      echo $quote;
                 };
            ?>

This code is for a global block which is displayed if the 2nd section of the page is empty.

cheers

Klaus

[finetoons]

Great! Thank  you.  Do you know where I would even begin to look (which file) for where allow_url_fopen is in the WB code?

[kweitzel]

WebsiteBaker itself doesn't use the include function (as far as I remember). But it might be used in single modules or even templates (I do if I can ...).

So, if you are having issues with it, try a different templates or check which module you are using at the moment when you get the error.

cheers

Klaus