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Sorry but is this relevant to the hack?

Also, where do I input the code to center the banners on the forum home page? Do I just use this code: <div style="text-align:center;">
<a href......>banner</a>
</div> ???

PLEASE let me know as well!

Well I use the phpinclude_start template:

Code:

ob_start();

require("/home/sites/avforums/public_html/page_top.php");

$forum_heading = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();

and then right at the top of the header template:

Code:

$forum_heading

And the page_top.php file I call some banner serving software.

After a couple of weeks of using this mod, and everything working OK, Today I logged to my forums, and I am getting the following error message at the top of FORUMHOME.

Warning: file_get_contents(): URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /index.php on line 59

Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.mydomain.com/forums/banners.php): failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /index.php on line 59

Sounds like there has been some kind of configuration change.
If you access the URL in your browser rather than in the file_get_contents, does it work?

The message

Quote:

URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

might offer you a clue.
If it worked previously, check (with your hosts) whether the configuration of the server has changed in some way.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Julio

I had this same problem when I moved a working 3.5.4 installation to a new server, which apparently was configured differently. I found it worked if I changed it to not address the file via http:

PHP Code:


		
			
$mycustomheader = file_get_contents("filename.php"):

Adding to my post, above, re URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration:

I found this is because my server has the PHP option allow_url_fopen disabled, thus preventing accessing the file via http. For importing static html, the solution in the above post was fine.

But one of my import files was a php file that generated some variable text depending on the date. When accessing this directly instead of as an http import, all I got was the static php code, not the RESULT of running the php code.

The support folks at the server suggested using their installed cURL library in place of get_file_contents(). The following modification to this hack in forumdisplay.php is now working for me:

PHP Code:


		
			
Replace:

$mycustomheader = file_get_contents("http://www.mydomain.com/forums/filename.php"):

With: 

   $ch = curl_init();
   $timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.mydomain.com/forums/filename.php');
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
   curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
   $mycustomheader = curl_exec($ch);
   curl_close($ch);

If you're having the same problem, check with your host as to whether they have the cURL library available.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spinball

The amazing thing I discovered is that if the php function used (file_get_contents) is used on a php file, the php is processed BEFORE the file contents are read into the string.

Hi,
It seams, this is not the case for my server.
I see the text of the .php file, not the results of execution.

What I should ask my host to change?

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