Server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in

Question

I'm getting the following error when running a script. The error message is as follows...

Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: https:// wrapper is disabled in the server configuration by allow_url_fopen=0 in /home/satoship/public_html/connect.php on line 22

I know this is a server issue but what do I need to do to the server in order to get rid of the above warning?

Answer 1

@blytung Has a nice function to replace that function

<?php $url = "http://www.example.org/"; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 5); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $contents = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) {   echo curl_error($ch);   echo "\n<br />";   $contents = ''; } else {   curl_close($ch); }  if (!is_string($contents) || !strlen($contents)) { echo "Failed to get contents."; $contents = ''; }  echo $contents; ?>     

Answer 2

If you do not have the ability to modify your php.ini file, use cURL: PHP Curl And Cookies

Here is an example function I created:

function get_web_page( $url, $cookiesIn = '' ){         $options = array(             CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page             CURLOPT_HEADER         => true,     //return headers in addition to content             CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects             CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings             CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect             CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect             CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response             CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects             CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT    => true,             CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => true,     // Validate SSL Cert             CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION   => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,             CURLOPT_COOKIE         => $cookiesIn         );          $ch      = curl_init( $url );         curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );         $rough_content = curl_exec( $ch );         $err     = curl_errno( $ch );         $errmsg  = curl_error( $ch );         $header  = curl_getinfo( $ch );         curl_close( $ch );          $header_content = substr($rough_content, 0, $header['header_size']);         $body_content = trim(str_replace($header_content, '', $rough_content));         $pattern = "#Set-Cookie:\\s+(?<cookie>[^=]+=[^;]+)#m";          preg_match_all($pattern, $header_content, $matches);          $cookiesOut = implode("; ", $matches['cookie']);          $header['errno']   = $err;         $header['errmsg']  = $errmsg;         $header['headers']  = $header_content;         $header['content'] = $body_content;         $header['cookies'] = $cookiesOut;     return $header; } 

NOTE: In revisiting this function I noticed that I had disabled SSL checks in this code. That is generally a BAD thing even though in my particular case the site I was using it on was local and was safe. As a result I've modified this code to have SSL checks on by default. If for some reason you need to change that, you can simply update the value for CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, but I wanted the code to be secure by default if someone uses this.