[Tralala]

Originally Posted by nix

You don't have to undo the old hack or redo the template edits. Just upload the files and import the product.

check your php.ini and see if you have this.
allow_url_fopen

Ah, that. I'm aware of quite a few hosts who have disabled the PHP option allow_url_fopen, and thus have disallowed file_get_contents()... for security reasons. (Not just Dreamhost, who I'm with.) Apparently cURL is more secure, and is a feature-rich alternative.

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Allow_url_fopen


The good news is, in every instance that this has come up this far with other mods, I've let them know about cURL and they were able to substitute that as a solid fix/workaround. I just did a vB.org search and see plenty of instances to back this up. I'm hoping that's possible here with your mod.

And thanks again for resurrecting this excellent hack. It's very much appreciated.